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1 asbestosis, but scarring caused from some other
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2 purpose, correct?
3 A You have a number of things in your
4 question. Number one, the Mount Sinai group published
5 two papers on garage mechanics. One, as I point out,
6 without any control group, the one that you showed.
7 The one you did not show was actually a
8 better study, the second study, in which they have a
9 control group.
10 And they did not show any difference between
11 the garage mechanics who did brake repair work
12 compared to the garage mechanics who did not do any
13 brake work.
14 And those two studies, either one of them
15 talk about mesothelioma and out of all the case
16 reports. And as I have emphasized over and over again
17 today, the case reports are not sufficient proof of
18 causation.
19 Q Doctor, how many case reports would you need
20 to see in a population of workers before you would
21 decide that the workers were at risk for disease
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