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When industry-sponsored research is on the nose

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageUniversities, journals and academics are increasingly concerned about the attempts of some industries to distort the science.lipik/Shutterstock

A tin pot dictator plunders billions from his blighted nation’s treasury. Sensing he’ll soon be exiled, amid public relations fanfare, he offers ill-gotten millions to a local university for a...

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