A: My expertise I can't say about it, what my expertise I can't report to you.
Q: So it's not written in your review either.
A: What is written in the opinion is what it says.
Q: So I ask about what is written, not about what is not written
A: Yes yes yes.
Q: What is not written, I don't know.
A: What it says I don't, it's not in my field, I write.
Q: So what I'm saying, all your opinions,
A: Yes
Q: All your opinions that you wrote about radicals and wrote about excess morbidity and wrote about a number of monitoring stations and wrote about a causal relationship between a certain substance and the disease. All these things are not In your field of expertise, you have read, brought into a document and submitted it to the court?
A: Good enough, yes
(pp. 297-298)
- In his cross-examination, Dr. Shlita was shown that significant parts of his opinion were copied from the EquiWiki website, and he replied as follows:
Q: So we see that almost everything is copied from Wiki. And my question to you is in your opinion, and now in the investigation, you said that you wrote everything you wrote from these pages, You removed from the reports of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health. And now we see that you've taken it out of Quickie.So it's better to say, you should have said...
A: I'm not sure.
Q: I took it out of Aquiqui.
A: I'm not at all sure. I don't see the environmental protection reports at the moment.
Q: But you see it's copied from Quickie, what are you not sure? How can you be unsure? You'll see that it's copied.
A: So what, what do you want to say?
Q: That you are not accurate, and that you should have written, I ask you if it would not have been more correct to write in parentheses on page 5 next to the heading Pollution and Morbidity in Haifa Bay, wouldn't it have been more correct to write its name according to what I copy from Aquiki?
A: I'm not sure I copied from Akiwiki. In any case, what I copied I copied.