- Buying Science (or the appearance thereof)
The tobacco industry paid thousands of dollars to scientists to write letters to influential publications, trying to cast doubt on the health effects of secondhand smoke. Lawyers for the tobacco industry edited the scientists' letters, in some cases wrote the letters. From the St. Paul Pioneer Planet.
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Britsh Medical Journal: "US tobacco giant Philip Morris set up a network of scientists throughout Europe who were paid to cast doubt on the risks of passive smoking and highlight other possible causes of respiratory problems, according to confidential documents from the company's law firm released on the Internet."
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Washington Post article: "Tobacco giant Philip Morris systematically wooed scientists who might help the company counter the growing consensus on the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'keep the controversy alive,' according to a 1988 internal tobacco company document."
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Stanton Glantz: Post-OSHA Hearings Comments
Post-OSHA Hearings Comments, 1996. Extensive analysis of tobacco industry arguments: Credibility, Causality, and Other Word Games; Publication Bias; Confounding Variables; Misclassification Error; etc.
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ASH UK Paper on how Philip Morris and its lawyers invented and orchestrated "controversy" on secondhand smoke. Provides internal documents that document in the tobacco industry's own words how it spent "vast sums of money" to "keep the controversy alive" on secondhand smoke.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - UICC GLOBALink ETS Documents
Several documents, primarily about tobacco industry actions attempting to discredit the effects of secondhand smoke.
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