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We're Here, We're Peers, Get Used to It

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"More than 20 chemical companies," including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, "have taken the unusual step of issuing subpoenas to five peer reviewers of a scholarly book." The book, "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution," presents evidence that, "in the late 1960s and early '70s, chemical-industry leaders failed to inform the government about a link that had been found in experiments with rats between e

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Main Source: 
The Chronicle of Higher Education (reg. req'd.), November 5, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Health
Human Rights

Those without Sinclair Casting the First Stone

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

The Sinclair Broadcast Group is "the poster child for abuse of the public airwaves," said the director of the media issues organization Free Press. Free Press is challenging the license renewal applications for four Sinclair stations in North and South Carolina, in a petition before the Federal Communications Commission.

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Main Source: 
Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Media

Chemical Industry Helps Fund EPA Study

Submitted by Laura Miller on

The American Chemistry Council is giving the Environmental Protection Agency $2 million for a study to explore the impact of pesticides and household chemicals on young children. The trade association, which represents nearly 150 chemical and plastics manufacturers and has a $100 million budget, spent more than $2 million on lobbying in 2003.

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, October 26, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Environment
Science

Fast Food Companies Are Bad for Your Health Care

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"California's initiative laws, initially passed to thwart corporate influence in politics, now facilitate just the opposite," writes Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser. Proposition 72, "an initiative that would require large and medium-sized business owners to give health benefits to their workers," is opposed by McDonald's, Burger King, Best Buy, Target and other fast food and big box companies.

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Main Source: 
Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Health
Lobbying

Comparing Coke and Carrots (on Coke's Tab)

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

At a conference on sugar and other sweeteners, medicine and epidemiology professor Adam Drewnowski challenged the World Health Organization's characterization of soft drinks as "energy-dense foods." He said that soft drinks' "high water content gives them the energy density of fresh carrots." Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, a think tank on food issues, organized the conference, which was sponsored by Coca-Cola's

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Main Source: 
Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2004
Topics: 
Food Safety
Corporations
Science

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