Constructing “sound science” and “good epidemiology”: tobacco, lawyers, and public relations firms.
The tobacco industry has attacked “junk science” to discredit the evidence that secondhand smoke—among other environmental toxins—causes disease. Philip Morris used public relations firms and lawyers to develop a “sound science” program in the United States and Europe that involved recruiting other...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 91; no. 11; pp. 1749 - 1758 |
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American Public Health Association
November 2001
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