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?
     8
     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?
    13
    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.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me put it to you.
    20
    21   MR. RAMPTON:  I will leave it with your Lordship.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have referred to Willett ----
    24        A.  Yes.
    25
    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.
    29
    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.
    34
    35   Q.  --- under your breast cancer section?
    36        A.  Yes, OK, so the criticism ----
    37
    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?
    41
    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.
    49
    50   Q.   Would you please turn to tab 5 in this volume? 
    51 
    52   MS. STEEL:  I think the witness might be going to say 
    53        something.
    54
    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.
    58
    59   MS. STEEL:  All I said was I thought the witness sounded as
    60        though he was about to say something else before

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