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Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 384 p., $45

Web edition : Friday, August 15th, 2008

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A report on how political and other attacks threaten public understanding of hazards.

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