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...principle, articulated by Thomas Jefferson, that there is "no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think...take it from them, but to inform their discretion" (Jefferson, 1820). Risk communication succeeds when it promotes a deeper understanding of the issues...

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...powerful and reverberant statements: the only "safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society" was "the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened...take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."21 Informing the citizens' discretion would enable them to practice more selfgovernment...

...no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves," Jefferson said, "and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...take it from them, but to inform their discretion." In today's world, Jefferson's definition of "the people" would include doctors trying to keep their...

...the judgment necessary to make profitable use of any information gained: "If we think [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with...take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."141 Jefferson certainly saw the economic advantage of better-educated citizens but, unlike...

...environmental concerns. No one knew this better than Thomas Jefferson. "If we think," he wrote, "the people are not enlightened enough to exercise their control with...take it from them, but to inform their discretion.'" Inform them indeed, adequately and appropriately. But the information must fall upon fertile, well-watered...

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