Day 031 - 05 Oct 94 - Page 54
1 A. Yes.
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3 Q. Within that group, the work of Dr. Kinland of Edinburgh
4 and Dr. Morson, the bowel pathologist. The last request
5 I have is this, Professor Crawford: We do not have your
6 paper in 1986 based or reflecting the Berzelius
7 Symposium. Is it possible we should be able to have that?
8 A. I cannot make a promise of that because we have moved
9 on several occasions and I do not know that I still have a
10 copy of it.
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12 MR. MORRIS: I actually contacted Professor Peto and they could
13 not find a copy either.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Should that be in the BMA Library?
16 A. I doubt it. I am not sure that it is terribly
17 relevant actually.
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19 MS. STEEL: I went to the Scientific Reference Library
20 yesterday and I could not find it there.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: May I before I, as it were, abandon this
23 particular paper, why do you say it is not relevant?
24 A. Well, because I think so much has happened since then,
25 and as it was an ad hoc meeting it was not called -- let
26 me put it this way, that much has happened since then in
27 this particular area that might add to the story. I think
28 there are much stronger statements that have been made
29 apart from -- there was no particular recommendation made
30 from that discussion, so it is difficult to know what one
31 would make of the intimate aspects of the discussion
32 itself. In other words, we did not sort of sit down and
33 come to conclusions and publish recommendations or
34 anything of that nature from the debate. It was primarily
35 a debate.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would you rather that that was taken out of
38 your statement? Is that what you are saying, because
39 otherwise, you see, if it stays in as part of your
40 evidence, Mr. Rampton is entitled to have a look at this
41 if it can be found?
42 A. Absolutely.
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44 Q. Do not concern yourself with the date because it is the
45 allegation in relation to publication of this leaflet, the
46 publication in late 1989 or ----
47 A. Right.
48
49 Q. --- early 1990. That is not to say that developments
50 since then may not be relevant, but it may be a few years
51 out of date anyway.
52 A. We always are.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is it something important, Mr. Rampton?
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56 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord; it might have been, I do not know.
57 It seems to bear upon the same interesting line of --
58 I think Professor Crawford might agree with this.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The bottom of page 8, the top of page 9.
