Day 107 - 24 Mar 95 - Page 45


     
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     2   Q.   Have you ever eaten an under-cooked steak?
     3        A.  Yes.
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     5   Q.   I know the Defendants do not.
     6        A.  I had one yesterday.
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     8   Q.   Have you ever eaten an under-cooked hamburger?
     9        A.  Not intentionally.
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    11   Q.   Have you ever eaten raw fish?
    12        A.  No -- well -----
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    14   Q.   Oysters, for example?
    15        A.  I avoid oysters.
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Could you insert, for my benefit -- I know
    18        I have mentioned it before -- an omelette with a runny
    19        centre or scrambled eggs which are done so they are still
    20        very soft?
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    22   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, or indeed looking at some of the stuff, as
    23        I have done, which you have written, a soft boiled egg?
    24        A.  Frequently.
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    26   Q.   How many times in your life have you suffered from food
    27        poisoning?
    28        A.  To my knowledge, I have never suffered food poisoning.
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    30   Q.   Exactly.  It is a very, very rare phenomenon, statistically
    31        speaking or epidemiologically speaking, from a public
    32        health point of view, is it not?
    33        A.  I do not think you can say that and I will not agree
    34        with that.  I do not believe it is rare.
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    36   Q.   You have written and published a good deal of material,
    37        have you not?
    38        A.  Yes.
    39
    40   Q.   You are practiced in expressing yourself in clear English,
    41        are you not?
    42        A.  Yes -- I do not always succeed.
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    44   Q.   So may one assume that when you publish in clear English
    45        you mean what you say?
    46        A.  To be brutally honest, sir, I try; I do not always
    47        succeed.
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    49   Q.   Often you are quite entitled (because if do not tell you,
    50        his Lordship certainly will) to qualify any of the various 
    51        statements that in the course of the next hour (and, I am 
    52        afraid, rather longer than that) that I am going to put to 
    53        you anything you may have written or, indeed, have said in
    54        this court.  Do you remember way back when you were a mere
    55        boy in 1976 writing an article for publication in, I think
    56        it is, the New Scientist?
    57        A.  Yes, I do.
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    59   Q.   Has the witness got the five papers which we disclosed
    60        earlier?

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