Hero or villain?--Sir Richard Doll and occupational cancer.
In 2006, the English media broke the story that Sir Richard Doll had for many years been retained on a secret consultancy by Monsanto. Doll's colleagues rushed to his defense, arguing that the story was an unjustified smear on a great man whose work had saved millions of lives. However, Doll's conflicts of interest in his occupational health epidemiology are shown to sit uneasily alongside his more independent smoking/lung cancer studies.
Tweedale
Geoffrey
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Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, Manchester, UK. G.Tweedale@mmu.ac.uk
D002617:Chemical Industry; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D004813:Epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016272:Occupational Health