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FILE NAME Corning OC
DATE 1965 Nov 29 DOC OC023
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Internal Report on Dr. Selikoff with Cover Letter
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F. H. Edwards - Toledo ATTACHED REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
November 29 1965
Dr. M
The report describes what little information we have about
Selikoff and several fairly recent statements by Dr.
Medical Director
Kenneth Smith
Selikoff
might be explore
Our present concern is to find some way of preventing Dr.
from creating problems and affecting sales A direct approach more damaging than helpful and I am only suggesting that we at this time all avenues open to us
As I explain in the report we know of no real evidence that permits Dr. Selikoff to take this positive position and this point could
be used effectively in explaining our position to Mount Sinai Hospital
officials This certainly would force Dr. Selikoff to produce what information he has
Neither Dr. Bishop nor I would want our surprise and suspicions about Dr. Smith's them only because they might be indicative of thinking in M
to have an issue made of statements I mention at least some of the
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RETYPED FACSIMILE
IRVING J, SELIKOFF M.D.
IRVING IRVING SELIKOFF SELIKOFF Health Section Environmental Environmental Hospital
Mount Sinai Hospital Hospital
Actording to Mr, Bickles President the Union
According compensation Bickles implying was was humaniUtarian nhiumoanniSteliakofrf iSaenlipkroofjfecctonducted study Siedy
To quote from the talk Take fibrous
To quote from talk on its
glass example example
There an appalling
effect on the lungs
appalling ack
a later would the medical directors of
meeting with action could be taken
determine determine what learned the
NMoanspveciiflicle recommendations recommendations from the :o
recommendations claimed
. investigated
following from Manville people claimed claimedhatovehatvhee
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Dr. Selikoff an
United States
immigrant was not approved later accepted
after his first application He
under broad the
reciprocal agreement with a foreign country was later accepted under a broad
justify c.
He He stature stature in profession
at medical conclusions that he dawthaedniddidaojtustify justify a Project and arcivec
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His current
asbestos asbestos attempt attempt to typical typical Professional notice with
considered considered to typical
attacks on
He He was
motivating motivating subject Biological Biological Effects
October October 1964 on New York
Asbestos
was sponsored sponsored by the York Academy Science " Asbestos,
Academy of Scieace.*
The conference conference iThe conference
the On On the which implied implied
stories stories which condemned condemned
his his views condemned
majority the participating participating authorities authorities supported
majority of the participating authorides 02
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asbestos as a carcinogen Before the articles could be released
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the He was successful in getting his article Asbestos
in the Journal of American Medical AssociatioEnxposure and Neoplasia published
On the other hand physicians who claim to know
his medical ability and motives
him well are unusually critical of
Dr. Selikoff's study of 632 insulation workers
asbestos is a carcinogen It is indicative
does not justify his conclusion that
borne out by the statements of
perhaps but far from conclusive This was
symposium
many Most of those men had
medical
authorities
during
the
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studied the effects of asbestos
exposure for
York
yet they were reluctant to identify asbestos as the culprit
years
To our knowledge Dr. Selikoff has never conducted
effects of exposure to glass fibers As
a scientific medical study of the
James Eaton copy to you is entirely unrjeussutlitfiaedlettiterisofbtahseedtype written by him to
upon conjecture and
opinion only with Dr. Heuper and Dr. Schepers providing so Dr. Selikoff
says any
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following comments about statements in his letter may be helpful
Pathologist Saranac We have animal studies inhalation ingestion
U. Gardner deceased time Director and cutaneous made by Dr. Leroy
Research
of
Dr. Selikoff seems to dismiss those studies for
perhaps that no injurious effects of
some reason .. one being
Fiberglas have been demonstrated
By condemning the use of fibrous glass as a
potentially significant health
particulate matter and a
health hazards
hazard he is assuming the position of arbiter of
and standards for the country The U.S. Public Health
has not found it
Service
necessary to is saying in effect If I
invoke any such restriction
Further Dr. Selikoff
used
believe that a substance is injurious it must not be
opiniinodnustrially even though I have nothing conclusive on which to base my
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used Selikoff refers to fibrous glass in respect substance is
he has
borne glass fibers literal sense he wrong in respect to more than % air- borne glass fibers Air sampling surveys made by Nottering
of
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have
shown
that
less
than
%
of borne
glass
fibers
Laboratory
in
and
under 10 microns is maximum dimension It is
our plants is
profession that few particles over 10 microns generally agreed in the medical
several years of study Dr. Leroy U. Gardner enter the lungs proper After
are not inhalable
concluded that Fiberglas particles
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Note that Dr. Selikoff states in the last
letter
These theoretical considerationssentwehnciechofitnhdeicatthiersd phaerahgarsaph of his nothing
substantial upon which to base his ideas
period or longer in which
Further he has selected a year
a lung disease from glass dust
develop subjective or objective symptoms In
exposure would
long period of time mainly because he has
my opinion he has selected a
could attribute to glass dust
not found any lung diseases that he It is true that pneumoconiosis takes years to
develop symptoms but numerous cases show up in a matter of 12
years because of the unusual
or more
susceptibility of a small group of people
To our knowledge Dr. Heuper has never
to lung cancer or other
published anything relating Fibergias
lung diseases Incidentally he was one of the few
supporters of Selikoff at the New York asbestos
meeting
reinforced plastic and that
resin was being studied
published a number of articics
implied that Fiberglas dust might be harmful This is
a long story
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Dr. Selikoff indicates that he is
am sure that he has
attempting to restrict the uses of Fiberglas
nothing concrete to show to Public Health officials
It would be of interest to know to what
back
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same cloth
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Dr.
Schepers
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Health of Manville Company We entered those
the fibrous glass business is a
meetings with the thought that
relatively small part of M's total volume and for this
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