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     2   MR. MORRIS:  If we can just look at the statement of Professor
     3        Wheelock.  It should be in plaintiffs' witness statements
     4        -- you do not need that file any more. I do not know what
     5        colour they are.  Yellow.  Volume V, Nutrition.  It is
     6        section 1, page 7 internal, headed "Cancers".
     7        A.  I am sorry, it is not number 1 in mine ----
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which tab is it?
    10        A.  It must be No.5.
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    12   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, it is Professor Wheelock's statement.  I do
    13        not know what tab that is.
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    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There are three:  5, 6 and 7.
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    17   MR. MORRIS:  It is 8th June 1993, section 1, "Diet and Health".
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    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is tab 5.
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    MR. MORRIS:  So it is tab 5, section 1, page 7. It refers to
    22        this report that we were quoting from.  If we look down
    23        the page ----  (Pause)
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    25        Just over the page, on page 8, I just say what
    26        Mr. Wheelock's summary of what the committee concluded;
    27        Professor Wheelock's conclusion is: "The Committee
    28        concluded that of all the dietary components it studied,
    29        the combined epidemiological and experimental evidence is
    30        most suggestive for a causal relationship between the fat
    31        intake and the occurrence of cancer." Would you agree with
    32        that?
    33        A.  What he is saying ----
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    35   Q.   He is saying that is what they are saying?
    36        A.  He is saying that the committee concluded and that it
    37        was most suggestive.  But he then goes on to qualify that
    38        particular point.  The committee actually recognised the
    39        limitations inherent in the various strategies.  This is
    40        the point I made this morning, that some studies do show a
         relationship, others do not.  One has to try to find out
    42        why there should be this difference and it is these
    43        limitations and the possibility of introducing bias which
    44        is important.  He mentions further on in his statement
    45        about the question of bias.
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    47   Q.   I will not read much because I am conscious Mr. Wheelock's
    48        statement has been accepted.
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    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  What you are batting for at the moment 
    51        is international and governmental recognition. 
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    53   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL: - at this time.  So ...
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    57   MR. MORRIS:  If we very briefly go to section 1, page 1.  I do
    58        not know why it is page 1.
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    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In Professor Wheelock's statement?