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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.