Sens. Lautenberg and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) are the authors of S. 2685, a bill to prohibit the cigarette companies of using the so-called "FTC method" for measuring tar and nicotine.
Several researchers have since emphasized to me that, while R might be statistical rather than scientific in some pedantic sense, it's so important that it deserves prompt attention.
有一些研究人员曾经向我强调说，虽然从书面意义看来 R 可能更接近于 统计学而不是 科学，但是它非常重要并值得我们关注。