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1 Drinker study.
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2 But what you need to remember is that no one
3 in the 1940s or the 1950s did that. No one published
4 an article that said, hey, Fleischer and Drinker are
5 wrong. The results that they published for everyone
6 to see are mistaken.
7 It wasn't for almost 20 years that Dr.
8 Selikoff, who you heard a little bit about this
9 morning from Mount Sinai, who did a lot of research in
10 the area of asbestos, published a study and said
11 precisely that.
12 We have gone out, and we have studied
13 insulators. And we are still finding that insulators'
14 exposure to asbestos-containing products is within the
15 accepted TLV, but we are seeing excess disease, so
16 maybe the TLV doesn't work.
17 This is the mid 1960s, several years after
18 my client got out of the business.
19 Dr. Selikoff continued his work, and he
20 encouraged people to keep the dust levels down. And
21 asbestos continued to be used for several years after