Although there is much that could be said concerning the Collegium Ramazzini's exaggerations of the hazards of asbestos,1 the most significant matter to be rebutted is the statement in the penultimate paragraph that indicates that the Collegium Ramazzini receives no support from trial lawyers. This may be true now, but it was not the case in 1991. The plaintiffs' executive committee in the School Asbestos Litigation case provided a cheque for US$50 000 (from the settlement fund) to the late Irwin J. Selikoff, the founder of the Collegium, to pay, in part, for a conference on the dangers of asbestos (the “Third Wave Conference”) convened by the Collegium and attended by 15 US judges, several of whom had been handling asbestos matters.2 A further US$22 500 came from private donations, including donations from members of the plantiffs' executive committee.3