TOBACCO INDUSTRY FUNDING OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH REMAINS CONTROVERSIAL
September 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LONG-STANDING row over tobacco industry-funded research programmes in universities and elsewhere took a new and more provocative turn earlier this summer when the New York Times published an account of a highly restrictive contract between Philip Morris USA, America's largest tobacco company, and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond. We're used to hearing protests about universities accepting tobacco money for research but this deal went further by giving Philip Morris the right to bar professors from publishing their studies, or ...
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