✦ LIBER ✦

Response to Dr. Pratt

✍ Scribed by David Egilman

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 52 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-3586
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.4700220417

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The issues raised in Dr. Pratt's letter [1992] would seem to miss the main point. The unhappy 30-year period of inaction and unchecked asbestos exposure of workers from 1935 to 1964 as noted in Enterline [1991], contains enough minutiae to enable anyone who wishes to find rationale for uncertainty, and this letter demonstrates this well. It even includes reference to the National Cancer Institute's rejection of Dr. Gardner's proposal for further animal studies. The Institute was neither convinced of this researcher's competence for the investigation (the world's leading experimental dust pathologist!) nor of the potential importance of asbestos-lung cancer; since none of the committee members were familiar with the extent of occupational exposures, they believed that asbestos exposure would not cause too many cases of cancer.

The fact that Dr. Pratt is in error in stating that Dr. Gardner's study was "never heard from again" is not important. It has been widely noted in legal proceedings, being resurrected from the legal discovery process in asbestos litigation.

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