Day 030 - 03 Oct 94 - Page 47
1 witness brandishing which I do not have.
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3 MS. STEEL: Are you referring to this one? You had a copy of
4 that quite a while back.
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6 MR. RAMPTON: That is Mr. Cannon's book. What about the blue
7 thing?
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9 MR. MORRIS: The blue one you have the abstracts which
10 Mr. Cannon is going to be referring to. That was served
11 on Friday.
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13 MS. STEEL: You had most of it a few weeks ago.
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15 THE WITNESS: It is not hard to get. As I say, they are HMSO,
16 I hope.
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18 MR. MORRIS: Let us quickly go through.
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20 THE WITNESS: This list I think I can leave, if this would be
21 helpful to Mr. Rampton?
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, he has a copy now.
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25 MR. MORRIS: If we quickly go through the Research Grant
26 Announcement from the World Cancer Research Fund. Is
27 there any particular point you want to make?
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is No. 2, is it?
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31 MR. MORRIS: That is No. 2 on the list.
32 A. I doubt there is anything there that adds much.
33 I think the statements which are relevant to this case
34 which is about the current state of scientific knowledge
35 are on page 3, the page headed "Background". That gives a
36 brief account of the history of the development of the
37 scientific consensus on diet and cancer. What is stated
38 there I have already stated in court today, I believe.
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40 MS. STEEL: I do not know whether our copies are the same. My
41 Background is not at page 3. My one is at page 57.
42 I think we may have put the photocopies in the wrong order
43 or something.
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45 THE WITNESS: Perhaps I should explain the standing of this
46 document. This is a document that is circulated to
47 research scientists who wish to apply for grants from the
48 World Cancer Research Fund to carry out research to do
49 with diet and cancer. These grants are reviewed by a
50 panel listed on page 4, and that panel itself also
51 reviewed this document that is now in front of us. I am
52 assuming the court has page 4?
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54 MR. MORRIS: Yes. It is just that we have probably mixed them
55 up in the photocopying.
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57 MS. STEEL: When you say page 4, what is the heading?
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I can see the numbers in white and the
60 shading in the columns.
