The Honorable Judge D. Chasdai: who is already sick, A person who has already fallen ill.
A: Ovary. Retrospectively, a person who already has shingles, retrospectively who had smallpox, and for that you need, you already know it's a certain carcinogen, I already knew it was a substance. The reports from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Environment said that it was certain carcinogens, it wasn't a problem for me at all. I don't argue about that. Even with the fishermen. They bathed in certain carcinogens. None of us will be willing to enter Kishon today when it contains certain carcinogens. Why? Because we know that RISK Tall, we know that, But a person who got sick After he immersed in Kishon, I say that it is more likely than not that this immersion caused, caused his illness, because I saw that I could not convince Ron,
[....],
That's how I explain it, that there are two approaches to assessing some kind of environmental exposure. Prospectively, in order to assess the risk and determine that the substance is definitely carcinogenic, this is what the Honorable Justice Ron Shapira says, I just wrote in the article. And then retrospectively, after you already know that it is a certain carcinogen, then there is no need for any Hill guidelines. If we get to... There is no need for statistics, it is deterministic that there is a connection. (In detail, pp. 409-412).
- In the judgment of the Haifa District Court, it was held in relation to the thesis of 'qualitative epidemiology' raised by Lin – within the framework of his fourth opinion there and even in our case from the retrospective perspective – that:
As for Prof. Lin's opinion, these are general opinions and therefore do not establish a connection between the illness of a particular plaintiff and a specific material. See: Ramat Hovav [p. 129].
Prof. Lin's general opinion is not sufficient to create an individual opinion in the matter of the aforementioned deceased, since Prof. Lin did not discuss the specific circumstances of each of the plaintiffs' exposure to the Kishon water and the specific risk factors of each of them for pancreatic cancer. Therefore, this general opinion does not have the power to create a specific opinion in the matter of the deceased, especially when Prof. Lin does not even have the relevant expertise to determine this [p. 153].