Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 63
1 afraid. I simply do not know.
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3 Q. Do you think that you are likely to have heard about it?
4 A. There are 400 references in the encyclopedia. I do
5 not carry this kind of information in my head. I am
6 looking at it now I suspect for the first time, but I do
7 not know.
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9 Q. Will you turn, please ----
10 A. I cannot give you a more precise answer.
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12 Q. Will you turn, please, to the last two pages in this tab?
13 A. Could you give me the numbers, please?
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15 Q. I cannot do that because I am afraid mine is unnumbered.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 389.
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19 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord, 391 and 392.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Science News.
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23 MR. RAMPTON: These are magazine articles or newspaper
24 articles. Science News we have come across before in this
25 case I believe. The last page 392 is an article from the
26 International Herald Tribune. Do you see the heading of
27 the article in Science News: "Dietary fat: No link to
28 Breast Cancer" do you see that?
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. Do you now recall that Dr. Willett's paper in October 1992
32 being the 8-year follow up in his American nurses study,
33 received an enormous amount of publicity at the time?
34 A. I do not recall it actually, no.
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36 Q. You must have done quite a lot of work to produce this
37 book, must you not?
38 A. I did.
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40 Q. Do you think it in the least bit unlikely that you must
41 such an important event in the field as this?
42 A. Well, I take your word for it, it is important. I am
43 not sure whether it is. I need to read it first. I know
44 Walter Willett's attitude towards this. I also
45 know -- you cannot take one study really. I would prefer
46 to take my queue from -- I would prefer to take my queue
47 from a publication such as WHO.
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49 Q. You speak very quickly. You said you cannot take one
50 study?
51 A. Yes.
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53 Q. You took one study for your section on colon cancer, did
54 you not?
55 A. Let me explain that. There is a very large body of
56 evidence which shows that dietary fat does indeed promote
57 cancers. Now I may even be able to refer to Walter
58 Willett's own comment on this. May I do so?
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60 Q. Yes. I think in cross-examination you probably can, yes.
