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Whose side are health advocacy groups on?
Some of the most influential and vocal health experts belong to advocacy organizations such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the American Council on Science and Health. Who are they, and what do they stand for? Los Angeles Times, California. 4 July 2009.
Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science.
Call major environmental groups and ask them about Roger Bate. The reply is always: Who? Few know he's the man who spread the myth that environmentalists, by fighting to ban DDT, have heartlessly caused millions of malaria deaths worldwide. Natural Resources News Service. 1 June 2009.
The real story behind bisphenol A.
How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco's tactics to sow doubt about science and hold off regulation of BPA, a chemical in hundreds of products that could be harming an entire generation. Fast Company. 18 January 2009.
Manufacturing doubt in product defense .
What is the product-defense industry? How does it work, and who's behind it? Fast Company. 18 January 2009.
Plastics industry behind FDA research on bisphenol A, study finds.
A government report claiming that bisphenol A is safe was written largely by the plastics industry and others with a financial stake in the controversial chemical, the Journal Sentinel found. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. 23 October 2008.
Despite sceptics' noise, scientific consensus is growing.
Anyone keeping up with current affairs could be forgiven for thinking scientists are riven with doubt over climate change. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 2 August 2008.
Agencies asked to ease safety rules.
In its final days in power, the Bush White House is rushing to have federal agencies water down the regulation of hazardous substances, lawmakers and public health experts say. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington. 24 July 2008.
It's not the answers that are biased, it's the questions.
One of the eyebrow-raising statistics about the bisphenol A studies is the stark divergence in results, depending on who funded them. This striking difference in studies isn't unique to BPA. Washington Post. Opinion, 15 July 2008.
The attack on science.
There’s a whole industry that’s working to make you, and Congress, uncertain about what science is finding about human health risks. Environment Report, Michigan. 19 May 2008.
Whitewashing toxic chemicals.
Science for hire is pervasive, effective and stealthy, according to a new book about 'manufacturing doubt.' Newsweek. Opinion, 10 May 2008.
Studies on chemical in plastics questioned.
Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about a chemical compound that is central to the multibillion-dollar plastics industry, the FDA has deemed it safe largely because of two studies, both funded by an industry trade group. Washington Post. 27 April 2008.
Tobacco funded Mass. researchers.
The nation's largest cigarette maker has paid for scientific research at four Massachusetts universities since 2000, a practice that critics of the tobacco industry liken to the Mafia underwriting crime fighting. Boston Globe, Massachusetts. 31 March 2008.
Warning: Known to cause severe health risks to laboratory animals, bisphenol A is in you.
Investigative reporting finds that the federal government's assurances that bisphenol A is a safe chemical are based on outdated and incomplete government studies and science mostly funded by the chemical industry. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. 2 December 2007.
Critical reaction to research initiative.
Dow Chemical and BASF, the world's two largest chemical companies, have separately agreed to fund groundbreaking academic research initiatives at two of the most prestigious U.S. universities. The partnerships are getting some faculty criticism. Chemical & Engineering News. 6 November 2007.
Science's worst enemy: corporate funding.
The biggest threat to science has been quietly occurring under the radar. The threat is money—specifically, the decline of government support for science and the growing dominance of private spending over American research. Discover. 18 October 2007.
The truth about denial.
If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again. Newsweek. 5 August 2007.
Bush aide blocked report.
A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments. Washington Post. 29 July 2007.
The heat is on.
Like all good scientists, Scudder Mackey was skeptical 15 years ago when he began hearing predictions that increasing amounts greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would lead to global warming. But that skepticism has crumbled with mounting evidence. Detroit Metro Times, Michigan. 3 July 2007.
Manufacturing scientific uncertainty.
The most well known (and probably best financed) campaign to manufacture scientific doubt is being waged by the fossil fuel industry in an effort to impugn scientists’ work on issues related to climate change. Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey. Opinion, 5 April 2007.
UC to review the tobacco industry's funding of research.
James Enstrom, who studies the effects of smoking at UCLA's School of Public Health, receives money from cigarette makers. He has become a symbol for activists who hope to bar the practice. Los Angeles Times, California. 28 March 2007.
Public health agency linked to chemical industry.
A federal agency responsible for assessing the dangers that chemicals pose to reproductive health has contracted much of its work to a company with close ties to the chemical industry, including manufacturers of a plastic compound linked to reproductive damage. Los Angeles Times, California. 4 March 2007.
Traditional covert influence of industry on occupational and environmental health policies has turned brazenly overt in the last several years.
More than ever before the OEH community is witnessing the perverse influence and increasing control by industry interests. Government has failed to support independent, public health-oriented practitioners and their organizations, instead joining many corporate endeavors to discourage efforts to protect the health of workers and the community. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health [PDF]. 2 March 2007. More...
Tobacco on trial in California.
In a debate about whether to ban UC researchers from taking support from tobacco companies, critics of the practice point to a judicial decision that singles out a UCLA cancer researcher supported by the tobacco industry. Inside Higher Ed. 8 February 2007.
Adopting the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, ExxonMobile funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations.
Their goal was to confuse the public on global warming science, and they attempted to portray their advocacy as a positive quest for 'sound science' instead of business self-interest. Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air. Published by Union of Concerned Scientists. 4 January 2007.
Mis-lead.
Over 2 years of investigation reveals that agencies charged with overseeing the DC water system used flawed science to try to quiet public concerns about lead in drinking water. Environmental Science & Technology. 1 June 2006.
Science-for-hire hazardous to health.
After decades of tobacco science, polluters are enlisting the Office of Management and Budget in efforts to undermine environmental laws. OMB has proposed mandatory guidelines that would require impossibly comprehensive risk assessments before issuing new documents or rules. Baltimore Sun, Maryland. Opinion, 17 April 2006.
Chromium wars, the sequel.
The EPA has asked for documents that could lead it to investigate the chromium industry for withholding from the government a key study supporting a stricter standard for the potentially deadly metal. Forbes. 29 March 2006.
The Weinberg proposal.
A scientific consulting firm says that it aids companies in trouble, but critics say that it manufactures uncertainty and undermines science. From its roots defending the tobacco industry, it now defends Teflon, bisphenol A and phthalates. Environmental Science & Technology. 22 February 2006.
Manufacturing science.
A public health scientist suggests that much of the squabbling over scientific certainty in public policy debates about the environment is the result of a concerted strategy by those who want to avoid government regulation. It's a strategy to manufacture doubt, using techniques pioneered by the tobacco industry. Living On Earth. 7 August 2005.
Lead paint experts face a barrage of subpoenas.
A high-stakes legal battle involving the health hazards of lead paint has turned ugly. A paint company sued by the state of Rhode Island has demanded raw and even unpublished data sets from several researchers so that the court can review scientific claims. Science. 15 July 2005.
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