mrs preston martin. yes and sometimes you got some french t.v. . i'll tell you. with your discoveries are processed meats the researcher was the victim of a number of attacks but she agreed to look back at her work which showed up link between the excessive eating of hot dogs and certain rare cancers in children. how did you find the relationship. well just the way we always did when we did case control studies we started out with a group of children who had leukemia and compared them to group children who didn't have the game and we asked the mothers about what they fed the children and sure enough the kids with. dogs what did you think when you saw this strong relationship because it was quite a strong it was with dogs i was a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment which is what epidemiologists do when they find something they don't expect. from that moment on the food industrialists susan preston martin became public enemy number one. and the meat lobby they definitely didn't like what we were doing they were terribly upset and i could understand tha