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1 Answer: Not true anymore.
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2 Question: Okay. How long has there been a
3 certification process?
4 Answer: Either 1980 or 1981, around that
5 time.
6 So we now know that despite what Dr. Dement,
7 the plaintiff's epidemiologist, quote unquote, told
8 us, there is a certification process for
9 epidemiologists, and it has been around since 1980 or
10 1981.
11 Now, I thought about that point and I
12 thought about it and I thought about it some more and
13 I tried to figure out why Dr. Dement would tell us
14 that there is not a certification process when there
15 is, and I came up with three possible reasons.
16 The first is Dr. Dement is really a
17 certified epidemiologist, and he just misunderstood my
18 question.
19 Well, I looked at his CV, and he is not even
20 listed as a member of the American College of
21 Epidemiology, much less a fellow like Dr. Wong, so