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21 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 105 (2010)
Corporate Manipulation of Research: Strategies are Similar Across Five Industries

handle is hein.journals/stanlp21 and id is 107 raw text is: CORPORATE MANIPULATION OF
RESEARCH: STRATEGIES ARE SIMILAR
ACROSS FIvE INDUSTRIES
Jenny White*
Lisa A. Bero**
INTRODUCTION
The release of over forty-three million pages of internal industry
documents as part of a number of legal settlements in the 1990s, most notably
the Master Settlement Agreement with forty-six state attorneys general in
1998,1 has revealed the inner workings of the tobacco industry. Recently
several other industries have been required to release to the public many of
their internal documents as a result of litigation, and in some cases
congressional inquiry. In an era when thousands of newly engineered products
are being developed and marketed and novel production processes
implemented with insufficient regulatory oversight and little understanding of
the long-term risks, industries worldwide are greatly expanding their
sponsorship of risk research. The release of these documents provides an
opportunity to systematically examine the strategies each industry used to
Jenny White (presenting author) is a Research Analyst at the University of
California, San Francisco's Department of Clinical Pharmacy. This research was funded by
the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (grant 13RT-0108). We would
like to thank David Rosner for providing us with original documents from the lead, vinyl
chloride, and silica industries, James Lightwood for statistical analysis of the results, and
Elizabeth Boyd for information on federal standard-setting agencies.
** Lisa A. Bero, PhD is Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of
Pharmacy and Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of
California, San Francisco.
1. TOBACCO CONTROL REs. CTR., THE MuLTIsTATE MASTER SETILEMENT
AGREEMENT AND THE FuTuRE OF STATE AND LOCAL TOBACCO CONTROL (Graham Kelder &
Patricia      Davidson        eds.,        1999),       available       at
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/tobaccoscontrol/resources/msa/msa-analysis.pdf.

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