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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