CMD executive director John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, co-authors of The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq, have been barnstorming the country talking in classrooms, bookstores, homes, on radio and TV programs, and i

The University of California system is debating whether UC schools should continue to accept research funding from tobacco companies. Proponents of the funding invoke the slippery-slope argument, saying if UC refuses tobacco funds, then pharmaceutical companies might be next. Others argue that eliminating tobacco funding would infringe on academics’ freedom of speech.