Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 60
1 Q. I ask you why it is that you make reference to this paper
2 in the context of colon cancer in your book, but not in
3 the context of breast cancer?
4 A. Right, let me take this point by point then, I am
5 afraid, because it will take some time. I say their
6 health was tracked for six years, is this correct? Do you
7 consider this to be correct?
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9 Q. Yes, yes, that is correct.
10 A. I say that women who ate beef, pork or lamb as a main
11 dish every day were two-and-a-half times more likely to
12 contract colon cancer. Do you think that is correct?
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14 Q. I ask you why you made no reference to this report in your
15 section on breast cancer?
16 A. I am sorry. I need to focus on precisely what
17 criticism you are making.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me put it to you.
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21 MR. RAMPTON: I will leave it with your Lordship.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have referred to Willett ----
24 A. Yes.
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26 Q. --- where it makes things, it might be thought, look black
27 for meat-eaters, so far as colon cancer is concerned?
28 A. Right.
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30 Q. But you have not referred to Willett when it might be
31 interpreted as being reassuring for meat-eaters so far as
32 breast cancer is concerned ----
33 A. Yes, I see.
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35 Q. --- under your breast cancer section?
36 A. Yes, OK, so the criticism ----
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38 Q. Mr. Rampton is asking you if there is an explanation?
39 A. So, the criticism is not I have been inaccurate, but
40 that I have omitted to mention breast cancer?
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42 MR. RAMPTON: No, Mr. Cox. The criticism is this, and I make
43 it plainly and I shall make it again, that you have
44 deliberately suppressed the part of the report which is
45 unfavourable to your thesis, because it interferes with
46 what you like people to believe about high-fat diet and
47 breast cancer; it is as simple as that.
48 A. Well, I am afraid I cannot agree with you.
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50 Q. Would you please turn to tab 5 in this volume?
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52 MS. STEEL: I think the witness might be going to say
53 something.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ms. Steel, if you want to make an objection
56 to something, just stand up and make it and we will listen
57 to it.
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59 MS. STEEL: All I said was I thought the witness sounded as
60 though he was about to say something else before
