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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
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Donald E. Paglia, M.D.

Dorothy L. Rosenthal, M.D.

Jerry Waisman, M.D.

William L. Wolfson, M.D.

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Eugene P. Cronkite, M.D.

Medical Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, L.I., NY 11973

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Dear Eugene:
Now that nearly everyone on the Thyroid Review Committee has responded,
we are about ready to bed down the Marshalls report. A little more
telephone time with Bob Conard and Margaret Dienes should provide the
final proofings and polishes before publication. I'm satisfied that
the total report will be an accurate and balanced reflection of what
was done and how it was done. What it all means is another matter,
but I suspect that that will be the subject of considerable future
scrutiny by all sorts of interested parties.
I enclose copies of two notes recently received in response to redrafting
of the histopathology section. I hope they're as gratifying to you as
they were to me. They're also instructive: First of all, I learned that
Dave Reid is a gentleman capable of admitting error, clearly an attribute
that adds to ones stature. But, as I also told him, these never seemed
to me issues of right vs. wrong, but more matters of proper scientific
procedure and presentation -- fundamentals that you and Vic taught me
as a pup. None of it really involved sophisticated pathologic interpretations as much as defining with precision the protocols followed
and results produced. Basic stuff.
Over the past few years, that position rarely seemed to be recognized

whenever the possibility of a pathology review was suggested.

Certain

individuals I spoke to directly appreciated it, but the lack of enthusiasm

on the part of most others was underwhelming, to say the least.
I was
particularly impressed with the adamance of past opposition as I recently
thumbed through some of the correspondence on this subject that has

accumulated in my file over the past couple of years. And the antagonistic
response of the Thyroid Advisory Panel at NIH the year before will long
remain distressingly vivid.

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