Re: Renowned Cancer Scientist Was Paid by Chemical Firm for 20 Years

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If you all haven't read "Natural Cures, "They" Don't Want You To Know About", by Trudeau, you should. It's an eye opener and he gives a lot of helpful advice. Rogene S <saxony01@...> wrote: Ilena Rose <ilena.rosegmail> wrote: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:40:06 -0600From: "Ilena Rose" <ilena.rosegmail>Subject: Renowned Cancer

Scientist Was Paid by Chemical Firm for 20 Years http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1208-05.htm Published on Friday, December 8, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Renowned Cancer Scientist Was Paid by Chemical

Firm for 20 Years by Boseley A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that he held a paid consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian can reveal. Sir Doll

Sir Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business. While he was being paid by Monsanto, Sir wrote to a royal Australian commission investigating the potential cancer-causing properties of Agent Orange, made by Monsanto and used by the US in the Vietnam war. Sir said there was no evidence that the chemical caused cancer. Documents seen by the Guardian reveal that Sir was also paid a £15,000 fee by the Chemical Manufacturers Association and two other major companies, Dow Chemicals and ICI, for a review that largely cleared vinyl chloride, used in plastics, of any link with

cancers apart from liver cancer - a conclusion with which the World Health Organisation disagrees. Sir 's review was used by the manufacturers' trade association to defend the chemical for more than a decade. The revelations will dismay scientists and other admirers of Sir 's pioneering work and fuel a rift between the majority who support his view that the evidence shows cancer is a product of modern lifestyles and those environmentalists who argue that chemicals and pollution must be to blame for soaring cancer rates. Yesterday Sir Peto, the Oxford-based epidemiologist who worked closely with him, said the allegations came from those who wanted to damage Sir 's reputation for their own reasons. Sir had always been open about his links with industry and gave all his fees to Green College, Oxford, the

postgraduate institution he founded, he said. Professor Toy, medical director of Cancer Research UK, which funded much of Sir 's work, said times had changed and the accusations must be put into context. " Doll's lifelong service to public health has saved millions of lives. His pioneering work demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer and paved the way towards current efforts to reduce tobacco's death toll," he said. "In the days he was publishing it was not automatic for potential conflicts of interest to be declared in scientific papers." But a Swedish professor who believes that some of Sir 's work has led to the underestimation of the role of chemicals in causing cancers said that transparency was all-important. "It's OK for any scientist to be a consultant to anybody, but then this should be

reported in the papers that you publish," said Lennart Hardell of University Hospital, Orebro. Sir died last year. Among his papers in the Wellcome Foundation library archive is a contract he signed with Monsanto. Dated April 29 1986, it extends for a year the consulting agreement that began on May 10 1979 and offers improved terms. "During the one-year period of this extension your consulting fee shall be $1,500 per day," it says. Monsanto said yesterday it did not know how much work Sir did for the company, but said he was an expert witness for Solutia, a chemical business spun off from Monsanto, as recently as 2000. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2006 __________________________________________________

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Jenn, I have caught his info-mercial a couple of times. Awesome.

I'm going to buy the books for Christmas, a gift for my healing

journey.

So many cures ARE in our kitchen cupboards!

Love,

Sunny

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006

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Guardian / UK

> Renowned Cancer Scientist Was Paid by Chemical Firm for 20

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> A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that

he held a paid consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20

years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian

can reveal.

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> Sir Doll

> Sir Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established

that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of

$1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical

company and now better known for its GM crops business.

> While he was being paid by Monsanto, Sir wrote to a royal

Australian commission investigating the potential cancer-causing

properties of Agent Orange, made by Monsanto and used by the US in

the Vietnam war. Sir said there was no evidence that the

chemical caused cancer.

> Documents seen by the Guardian reveal that Sir was also

paid a £15,000 fee by the Chemical Manufacturers Association and two

other major companies, Dow Chemicals and ICI, for a review that

largely cleared vinyl chloride, used in plastics, of any link with

cancers apart from liver cancer - a conclusion with which the World

Health Organisation disagrees. Sir 's review was used by the

manufacturers' trade association to defend the chemical for more than

a decade.

> The revelations will dismay scientists and other admirers of Sir

's pioneering work and fuel a rift between the majority who

support his view that the evidence shows cancer is a product of

modern lifestyles and those environmentalists who argue that

chemicals and pollution must be to blame for soaring cancer rates.

> Yesterday Sir Peto, the Oxford-based epidemiologist who

worked closely with him, said the allegations came from those who

wanted to damage Sir 's reputation for their own reasons. Sir

had always been open about his links with industry and gave

all his fees to Green College, Oxford, the postgraduate institution

he founded, he said.

> Professor Toy, medical director of Cancer Research UK, which

funded much of Sir 's work, said times had changed and the

accusations must be put into context. " Doll's lifelong

service to public health has saved millions of lives. His pioneering

work demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer and paved

the way towards current efforts to reduce tobacco's death toll, " he

said. " In the days he was publishing it was not automatic for

potential conflicts of interest to be declared in scientific papers. "

> But a Swedish professor who believes that some of Sir 's

work has led to the underestimation of the role of chemicals in

causing cancers said that transparency was all-important. " It's OK

for any scientist to be a consultant to anybody, but then this should

be reported in the papers that you publish, " said Lennart Hardell of

University Hospital, Orebro.

> Sir died last year. Among his papers in the Wellcome

Foundation library archive is a contract he signed with Monsanto.

Dated April 29 1986, it extends for a year the consulting agreement

that began on May 10 1979 and offers improved terms. " During the one-

year period of this extension your consulting fee shall be $1,500 per

day, " it says.

> Monsanto said yesterday it did not know how much work Sir

did for the company, but said he was an expert witness for Solutia, a

chemical business spun off from Monsanto, as recently as 2000.

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Good job Sunny. I understand he has another book out and it offers more info...as far as help for people. He is definitely trying to make money, so you have to take and leave stuff, but that's life. There is, however, a lot of good stuff there. JenSunny <wellnessnow@...> wrote: Jenn, I have caught his info-mercial a couple of times. Awesome. I'm going to buy the books for Christmas, a gift for my healing journey.So many cures ARE in our

kitchen cupboards!Love,Sunny Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:40:06 -0600> From: "Ilena Rose" <ilena.rose@...>> Subject: Renowned Cancer Scientist Was Paid by Chemical Firm for 20 Years> > > > http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1208-05.htm > > Published on Friday, December 8, 2006 by the Guardian / UK

> Renowned Cancer Scientist Was Paid by Chemical Firm for 20 Years > by Boseley> A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that he held a paid consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian can reveal. > > Sir Doll > Sir Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business. > While he was being paid by Monsanto, Sir wrote to a royal Australian commission investigating the potential cancer-causing properties of Agent Orange, made by Monsanto and used by the US in the Vietnam war. Sir said there was no evidence that the chemical caused cancer. > Documents seen by the

Guardian reveal that Sir was also paid a £15,000 fee by the Chemical Manufacturers Association and two other major companies, Dow Chemicals and ICI, for a review that largely cleared vinyl chloride, used in plastics, of any link with cancers apart from liver cancer - a conclusion with which the World Health Organisation disagrees. Sir 's review was used by the manufacturers' trade association to defend the chemical for more than a decade. > The revelations will dismay scientists and other admirers of Sir 's pioneering work and fuel a rift between the majority who support his view that the evidence shows cancer is a product of modern lifestyles and those environmentalists who argue that chemicals and pollution must be to blame for soaring cancer rates. > Yesterday Sir Peto, the Oxford-based epidemiologist who worked closely with him, said the allegations came from those who

wanted to damage Sir 's reputation for their own reasons. Sir had always been open about his links with industry and gave all his fees to Green College, Oxford, the postgraduate institution he founded, he said. > Professor Toy, medical director of Cancer Research UK, which funded much of Sir 's work, said times had changed and the accusations must be put into context. " Doll's lifelong service to public health has saved millions of lives. His pioneering work demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer and paved the way towards current efforts to reduce tobacco's death toll," he said. "In the days he was publishing it was not automatic for potential conflicts of interest to be declared in scientific papers." > But a Swedish professor who believes that some of Sir 's work has led to the underestimation of the role of chemicals in causing cancers said that

transparency was all-important. "It's OK for any scientist to be a consultant to anybody, but then this should be reported in the papers that you publish," said Lennart Hardell of University Hospital, Orebro. > Sir died last year. Among his papers in the Wellcome Foundation library archive is a contract he signed with Monsanto. Dated April 29 1986, it extends for a year the consulting agreement that began on May 10 1979 and offers improved terms. "During the one-year period of this extension your consulting fee shall be $1,500 per day," it says. > Monsanto said yesterday it did not know how much work Sir did for the company, but said he was an expert witness for Solutia, a chemical business spun off from Monsanto, as recently as 2000. > Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2006> > > > > > > > > > >

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