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1 They also went out and X-rayed all of these 2 workers, all 1,000 of them, to see if the people that 3 were actually using these products were getting sick. 4 What they found was that three out of the 5 1,076 people had asbestosis. 6 So what they concluded and published, in 7 1946, was that .29 percent of the people got 8 asbestosis. And they found that, based on this, 9 pipecovering was not a dangerous occupation. 10 By the way, what we are talking about here 11 are cancer cases, mesothelioma cases. You won't find 12 anything in the Fleischer-Drinker study that anyone 13 was getting cancer, and that is what was published. 14 Now, Fleischer-Drinker was the only 15 large-scale study of people who used these insulation 16 products that was published in the United States 17 during the time period that Owens-Illinois 18 manufactured Kaylo. 19 Now, I suspect that the plaintiffs' experts 20 will come into this courtroom, sit in the witness 21 stand and criticize and challenge the Fleischer-
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