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ERRATA SHEET
The City of Bloomington
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Plaintiff
) CAUSE NO. IP83-9-C
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Westinghouse Electric
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Corporation, et al,
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Defendants.
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(Deposition of William R. Gaffey)
I wish to make the following changes for the following
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Change: "trail" should be "trial." Reason: Misspelling,
Change: ".035" should be ".05." Reason: Transcription error.
Change: "close" should be "chose." Reason: Transcription error,
Change: "Having made no literature search..." should be "Having made a literature search..." Reason: Transcription error.
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Change: "manufacture" should be "man." Reason: Transcription error.
Change: "antidotal" should be "anecdotal." Reason: Transcription error.
Change: "symtomology" should be "symptomatology." Reason: Transcription error.
Change: "Bomgardner" should be "Bumgarner." Reason: Misspelling.
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Change: "That's what they say" should be "They say that PCB's may represent a cancer risk to humans, not that they do represent such a risk."
Reason: To reflect accurately what the studies say.
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Change: "Yes, I do" should be "In fact,
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the authors indicate that the^e may be a risk of cancer, not that there is a risk.
In any case, I disagree with their
conclusion."
Reason: The question misstated what the Brown and Jones studies say.
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Reason: To reflect accurately what the study found.
Change: "Yes, but a a different cancer site" should be "No, he found an increase that was not statistically significant, and that was at a different cancer site." Reason: To reflect accurately what the studies found.
Change: "differ" should be "different." Reason: Transcription error.
Change: "That's what they say, yes" should be "That was the conclusion in their first study, but they made no such conclusions in their second study."
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Reason: To reflect accurately what the studies say.
Change: "And with the EPA" should be "And I disagree with the EPA when it uses risk assessment as if it were a scientific prediction of real risk rather than a non-scientific expression of policy." Reason: To make the answer clear.
Change: "...and in those four studies..." should be "...and if in those four studies..."
Reason: Transcription error.
Change: "That's right" should be "One of the Jacobson studies addressed some neurological problems, but the second Jacobson study did not."
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Reason: To reflect accurately what the Jacobson studies addressed.
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Change: "Neurologicalproblems" should be "neurological problems in their first study."
Reason: To reflect accurately what the Jacobson studies addressed.
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Change: "...measured was the baby's..." should be "...measured in the second study was the baby's..."
Reason: To reflect accurately what the Jacobson studies addressed.
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191 20 Change: "That'scorrect" should be"One of the Jacobson studies addressed some neurological problems, but the second Jacobson study did not."
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Reason; To reflect accurately what the Jacobson studies addressed.
Change: That's their conclusion" should be "That's their conclusion in the first study." Reason: To describe Jacobson studies accurately.
Change: "Sure" should be "I accept that IARC has established criteria and has used those criteria to classify various substances. I do not agree that the label 'probable human carcinogen' accurately describes the criteria established by IARC as Category 2." Reason: To state accurately my views about the IARC criteria.
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Change: "Yes" should be "I disagree that the EPA's characterization represents a scientific description of the actual carcinogenic potential of the substance; rather, it is a non-scientific policy decision. Many people in the EPA agree with me that the EPA's characterization is not a scientific judgment."
Reason: To reflect accurately the nature and extent of my disagreement with some people at the EPA, and my agreement with other people at the EPA.
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but as far as I am aware, NIOSH has never classified PCB's as a probable human carcinogen." Reason: To reflect that the premise in the question - that NIOSH has classified PCB's as a probable human carcinogen - is not correct as far as I am aware.
Change: "Ligginson" should be "Higginson. Reason: Misspelling.
Change: "Singer" should be "Senger." Reason: Misspelling.
Change: "...pcb a carcinogen by act of Congress" should be "...pcb a hazardous substance by act of Congress."
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Reason: To reflect accurately the Toxic Substances Control Act, which does not refer to PCB's as a carcinogen or make any judgment about PCB's as a carcinogen.
Change: "PCB's are a carcinogen by..." should be "PCB's are a hazardous substance by..." Reason; Same as preceding change.
Change: "...carcinogen" should be "hazardous substance." Reason; Same as preceding change.
Deponent's signature
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