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1 Q. Presumably, the World Health Organisation does not choose,
2 you know, cranky, obscure, unpopular and unrepresentative
3 individuals or bodies; would it be fair to say that they
4 would try to choose people that are respected from bodies
5 that are established and recognised?
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We can see them on page 6, can we not?
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9 MR. MORRIS: Oh, good. I did not know there was that.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the third sheet of the copy you have
12 given us from the front.
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14 MR. MORRIS: One question that I do not know, is everybody who
15 is mentioned on pages 6 and 7 part of that working party;
16 is that correct?
17 A. It would seem to be the case.
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19 Q. Having a quick look at that, would you say that they are
20 fairly representative?
21 A. Well, I mean, there are many of them I have never even
22 heard of.
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24 Q. What about the Organisations that were represented such as
25 the Council for International Organisations of Medical
26 Sciences, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
27 Nations, International Council of Nurses, International
28 Dental Federation, International Diabetes Federation,
29 International Life Sciences Institute?
30 A. Well, if you look at the International Council of
31 Nurses, for example, that is a sort of administrative body
32 and, I mean, I do not know how they have chosen their
33 particular representative from that body to go on this
34 thing. This, of course, is one of the problems, is that a
35 lot of the people on this list here may not necessarily be
36 specialist in the field of diet and cancer -- in fact,
37 I suspect that most of them probably are not.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just ask, and then you come back,
40 Mr. Morris, can you see a cancer specialist there?
41 Obviously there may be many cancer specialists you do not
42 know around the world?
43 A. Well, Dr. Mettlin who is from the UICC is an
44 oncologist.
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46 Q. Where do I see him?
47 A. He is on the top right hand.
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49 MR. MORRIS: From the International Union against Cancer?
50 A. Yes.
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52 Q. Is that a respected body?
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It would be better to ask, is Dr. Mettlin an
55 established oncologist, respected oncologist?
56 A. Yes, he is a respected oncologist. The UICC is the
57 organisation which, for example, produces guidelines to
58 help us to stage cancer. We have manuals which are
59 produced which are designed to help us to categorise
60 patients who have similar degrees of advancement of their
