mrs preston martin. yes and sometimes you go some strange t.v. . 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 leukemia and we asked the mothers about what they fed the children and sure enough the kids with. what did you think when you saw this strong relationship because it was quite a it was with dogs i was a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment which is what epidemiologists to when they find something they don't expect. from that moment on for 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 that you kno

and i got the same kind of pattern and the style mrs preston i didn't understand that word at the time the defendant said a lot that you couldn't understand when you were stunned that when i saw home i know if you went out on the stroke of the concrete wall with a hand that. i almost felt like crying that first line. in wake of mind of hanged herself in her cell and made the ninth one nine hundred seventy six. the r.a.f. now had a second maga after the whole of the mines and i said to tell you i had lunch with my father and i was really upset about meinhof before my attitude was like how could you couldn't. already have supporters were convinced that my hope was murdered but the trial continued without interruption my dogs name was simply removed from the list of defend. going out on porch discovering new laws then the defendants demanded a break in the trial. so that they could properly grieve for mine whole but we knew from material taken from the jail cells that her colleagues put such pressure on her that she was driven into this unfortunate situation and can get there and. so he c

in the end mr trott's he did a great job well at least for the industrialist. back then he's an. the preston martin arguments were brought into the media spotlight. by this health journalist on a major national t.v. channel a few days after the publication of the famous study. let's get back to our hot dog study remember they asked the people did you eat a hot dog they didn't ask them did you put it in a bun did you put ketchup on it did you put mustard on it now you might be saying who really cares one way or the other but that's important because it may be that it's not the hot dog at all that's causing this increased risk of cancer maybe it's the bun maybe it's the ketchup maybe it's the mustard so you have to be careful when you read these studies not to say oh this causes this. the powers that be didn't go any farther than one nine hundred seventy s. nitrites file which could have resurfaced remains locked away. you're probably wondering what susan president thinks the woman targeted by the lobby. we showed her the documents and what upset her the most was seeing that fellow scientists

mr. summers. >> yes. >> i've known you 30 years. >> yes. >> whether i see this tomorrow night, and police come out, because alex and i are going to go. >> prestonl be. >> preston and steve. will i learn anything? >> oh, yes, you will learn a lot. >> something you haven't told me. >> well, you and i are so close. i think you know everything about me. >> okay. >> social security you haven't told me? >> well, there is a lot there, okay, because we've only known each other couple of years, i discuss the cancer thing, deep into the compulsive disorder stuff which i kind of hid for the longest time. >> how, the number one question, how in the world if you're obsessive compulsive, whatever. >> easy for to you say. >> how can you get slime all over you? >> like the mess yes, sir show on television? >> whether i auditioned for that they didn't tell me about the slime. >> really? >> no. so i get the job, i show up here in philadelphia where we started the whyy, i see them powering vats of dream goo, wipe cream, what's that. >> the obstacle course. >> what's that. >> the kids run through it and get all mess. >> i do you re i -- really think kids will want