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When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)

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Re: When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)

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I'm reminded of the Ethyl corporation funding the studies that said lead wasn't very harmful.

... Of course, that's the thing about science. The people doing research are separate from the ones providing the money. And people will put money behind the research that they believe is correct. This does, of course, incentivize some unethical folks to fudge numbers, but in general, the right way to approach this is to separate the funding from the science. See what the science says. Then, if you see an outlier paper and you need to understand why it's so different from the consensus... It might be helpful to see who is funding it to understand.

Going the other way (discounting the science based on who is funding it) is forming theories without data.

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