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 In 1998 -- when Jennifer Rufer was a 25-year-old newlywed eager to become a mother -- she thought she had suffered a miscarriage, reports CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan.When she went to the University of Washington Medical Center, doctor stanley water bottle s administered one of the most widely used blood p stanley mug regnancy tests in the country -- made by one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Abbott Labs.The test showed she had elevated levels of the hormone HCG. To her doctor, that meant one of two things. Either Rufer was pregnant, or she was in the early stages of a rare form of cancer. He performed the test 44 times all with the same result.But there was a problem.  The university claims Abbott Labs never told her doctor their test can sometimes give false results. And the doctor never tried a separate test until after he started treating Rufer for cancer.   She suffered through eight months of painful chemotherapy and six surgeries -- including one to remove part of a lung and a hysterectomy.          None of it appeared to work. So she and her husband bega stanley cup usa n planning a funeral. My family thought I would die, and so did I, 148; Jennifer Rufer said.But then a different test,  done by a different doctor at Yale, revealed the unimaginable. Not only did that test come back negative, but it determined she may never have had cancer in the first place. A colossal mistake.    The jury blamed both the university and Abbot Labs equally, forcing them to split the $16.2 million judgement.   Kxpz Gaze Inside the Enormous Space Toolbox that Lives on the ISS
 Ever been asked to settle something beyond a reasonable doubt   Ever taken part in a cause in which the evidence is overwhelming   Ever been completely sure you ;re right   Sure you have.  Plenty of times.  So many times that occasionally, you have to have been wrong.      stanley taza What would you consider certainty   In an ideal world, 100 percent certainty would be the only acceptable definition, but as we don ;t live in an ideal world, settling for nothing less than perfect certainty means not a lot would get done.  And so we relax our standards.  We don ;t have to relax them much, but unfortunately, even a little bit makes a difference eventually. Let   say we set up a test that gives establishe stanley kaffeebecher s what we want to find out with a certainty of 99 percent.  This test could establish the guilt or innocence of a suspect, or the presence of a medical condition.  It could also establish more complicated things, like the likelihood that a certain number of crimes in an area are committed by one person, or the likelihood that a particular drug is effective.  All these things can be established with a 99 percent certainty.  Or, ra stanley mug ther, any one of these things can be established with a 99 percent certainty.  What if we want to establish all four of these things  The math isn ;t complicated.  The likelihood of a coin flip coming up heads is 0.5.  The likelihood of a coin flip coming up heads two times in a row is 0.5 multiplied by 0.5, or 0.25.  Since a 99 percent proba