A Swedish Scientist on the Tobacco Payroll

by Sheldon Rampton — June 9, 2002 - 11:00pm
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Ragnar Rylander, a respected Swedish scientist, has been doing research on the connections between environmental tobacco smoke and lung disease, research that has been secretly funded by the tobacco company Philip Morris. Rylander has been accused of manipulating his studies to suit tobacco interests, and of thus partaking in a "scientific fraud without precedent."

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Dagens Forskning [Today's Science], no 12, June 10-11, 2002