Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 47
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Orange 4.
3 A. Can somebody help me with that?
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Riley is obtaining it for you.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: Tab 25, Mr. Riley, in the second part.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the very last document in the bundle.
10 A. Right. How do we get at it? Goodness me!
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12 MR. MORRIS: 24?
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14 MR. RAMPTON: 25.
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16 MR. MORRIS: We do not have that one.
17 A. We have it.
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19 MR. MORRIS: We do not have a copy.
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21 MR. RAMPTON: I do not have a spare copy, I am afraid. Mrs.
22 Brinley-Codd's is marked and also Professor Naismith needs
23 to look at it.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just do your best to follow what is what.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: It is paper headed, is it, metabolic epidemiology
28 of large bowel cancer?
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. In fact, you can see underneath the summary, you can see it
32 was published in 1978?
33 A. Yes.
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35 Q. So it is, in one sense, fairly ancient history, but can I
36 just ask you to read it. I am not going to read it out
37 because I have read it at least one or twice before in this
38 case. Notice it is by a number of people, two of whom are
39 Ready and Winter, who are very well-known in this field,
40 are they not?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. Can I just ask you to read the summary to yourself and tell
44 me when you have finished?
45 A. Yes, yes.
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47 Q. I will read this out for the benefit of the defendants. At
48 the bottom of the right-hand column of that page the last
49 two sentences beginning after the word "Denmark" in the
50 middle of the paragraph: "Colon cancer waste." Do you see
51 that?
52 A. You have lost me. You asked me to read the abstract.
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54 Q. After the abstract, the main body of the article.
55 A. Bottom right-hand side, yes.
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57 Q. There is a paragraph which begins "colon cancer incidence"?
58 A. Yes.
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60 Q. I will not read that first sentence. I am interested in
