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UW linked to ghostwriting.
As fears were growing about the link between hormone therapy and breast cancer, a drug company paid the University of Wisconsin to sponsor ghostwritten medical education articles that downplayed the risks, records obtained by the Journal Sentinel show. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. 16 August 2009.
Professor nominated to position overseeing FedOSHA.
Epidemiologist David Michaels will be nominated by the White House to run the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Michaels has been a notable advocate for workers to be compensated for health risks from chemicals. Las Vegas Sun, Nevada. 29 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.
Political lobbying drove FDA process.
The approval of a new device to treat knee injuries followed a lobbying campaign that overcame repeated rejections by scientists within the Food and Drug Administration. Some at the FDA say it shows how political and industry pressure can influence scientific conclusions. Wall Street Journal. 6 March 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.
Under Bush, science learned it must speak up.
George W. Bush will leave a legacy of increasing global warming and politicized public health. But he also leaves a generation of scientists who have found their voices at a time when our greatest policy challenges have a scientific component. First of two parts. Miller-McCune. 18 December 2008.
Some moms ditch plastic cups.
Conflicting reports over the safety of the plastic additive bisphenol A have forced parents to decide for themselves whether to keep using plastic baby bottles and cups made with the widely used compound. Raleigh News & Observer, North Carolina. 16 November 2008.
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.
Media coverage of drug studies lacking, study says.
Journalists too often leave out information that might reflect bias in drug study results, and use brand names that might implicitly promote the drug in question, a new study concludes. Boston Globe, Massachusetts. 6 October 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.
Whitewashing toxic chemicals.
Science for hire is pervasive, effective and stealthy, according to a new book about 'manufacturing doubt.' Newsweek. Opinion, 10 May 2008.
Livestock lobby meddled in study, authors contend.
Livestock interests tried to disrupt a wide-ranging study of their industry by threatening to yank financing for universities and scientists who assisted, a Pew Commission report released Tuesday alleges. Des Moines Register, Iowa. 30 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.
Fighting on a battlefield the size of a milk label.
A new advocacy group closely tied to Monsanto has started a counteroffensive to stop the proliferation of milk that comes from cows that aren’t treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone. New York Times. 9 March 2008.
Judging science.
A Supreme Court ruling and subsequent case history have raised the bar on introducing scientific data into lawsuit hearings. Now some argue the standards have gone too far. Science News. 23 January 2008.
A lethal cover up: Britain's worst water poisoning scandal.
After two decades of stone-walling by the authorities, alarming facts about the Camelford water incident are beginning to emerge, and this week a coroner opened inquests into a possible cover-up. London Daily Mail, United Kingdom. 15 December 2007.
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.
Thalidomide film premiere revives compensation fight.
Germany's pharmaceutical industry spent more than a year trying to ban the film, but last night a moving, controversial and widely acclaimed television drama about the tragedy suffered by thousands of children crippled by the drug thalidomide was finally broadcast to an audience of millions. London Independent, United Kingdom. 8 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.
NASA scientists challenge security rules.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center claim the new requirement by NASA that they submit to detailed FBI scrutiny of their backgrounds may be an attempt to control or silence them about issues like global warming. Nation. 4 September 2007.
FDA's user-fee habit.
For the past 15 years, pharmaceutical companies have poured $2 billion into a program that helps finance the US FDA Administration, allowing the FDA to become one of the world's fastest drug-approval agencies. Now that influx of money is under fire. Washington Post. 3 April 2007.
Chemical agency ties under review.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has begun a review of ties between a federal health center that evaluates the risks of chemicals to reproductive health and a consulting firm funded by companies that produce chemicals linked to reproductive disorders. Los Angeles Times, California. 7 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...
Questions about DuPont unsettle town.
Tennessee officials were surprised to learn that DuPont's paint plant in New Johnsonville produces dioxin... the fourth-largest producer in the US. Documents submitted to the state don't mention the carcinogen. Nashville Tennessean, Tennessee. 25 February 2007.
Climate sceptics switch focus to economics.
With less to argue about on the scientific front, sceptics have been turning their attention to the economics of adapting to a changing climate. Nature. 8 February 2007.
An unwelcome discovery.
The scientific process is meant to be self-correcting. But the Eric Poehlman case shows how a committed cheater can elude detection for years by playing on the trust -- and the self-interest -- of his or her junior colleagues. New York Times. 22 October 2006.
Study condemns FDA's handling of drug safety.
A report from the National Academy of Sciences says that the US system for ensuring drug safety needs major changes, and consumers should be wary of newly approved drugs. New York Times. 23 September 2006.
Journals feel pressure to adopt disclosure rules.
As environmental journals publish more controversial papers on topics such as human health and global warming, they face a serious issue that medical journals have long been dealing with--conflict of interest. Environmental Science & Technology. 21 September 2006.
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