If you would do research, what would it be?
Remember Richard Doll? Me neither. But it would seem he’s the dude who linked smoking to cancer. It has emerged that this is not all he did. He downplayed the effect of chemicals used to produce PVC, effect of Agent Orange (used to defoliate jungle in Viet Nam). I somehow get the feeling that this was linked to the fact that he was on payroll of at least one company, namely Monsanto.
To his defence:
“Professor Hardell attacked Richard a lot when he was alive when he could reply and now he is doing it when he is dead and cannot reply,’ he said. He added that Sir Richard had always been open about his links with industry and gave all his fees to Green College, Oxford, the postgraduate institution he founded, or to charity.
Well duh, of course they started talking after his death, they couldn’t see his papers before:
Since his death, Sir Richard’s papers have been filed for posterity. They have revealed a document that shows he was paid by Monsanto for years.
