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December 08, 2006
Sir Richard Doll
Mmm Hmm.
A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that he held a paid
consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20 years while
investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian can reveal.
Sir Richard Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business.
The punchline is I think here:
Yesterday Sir Richard Peto, the Oxford-based epidemiologist who worked closely with him, said the allegations came from those who wanted to damage Sir Richard's reputation for their own reasons. Sir Richard had always been open about his links with industry and gave all his fees to Green College, Oxford, the postgraduate institution he founded, he said.
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Reports the Grdnaiau: " ....pollution must be to blame for soaring cancer rates". Subtract those caused by smoking, and there are no soaring cancer rates,nor have there been throughout the decades during which hysterics and crooks have kept repeating this drivel.
Posted by: dearieme | Dec 8, 2006 1:08:59 PM
