Ketchum Caught "Man of the Year" Title for Putin
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Ketchum, the PR firm involved in the
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SourceWatch Key to Inquiries Launched into Canadian Climate Skeptics' Election Activities
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A Canadian global warming skeptics group, Friends of Science (FoS), is facing several investigations into a radio advertising blitz it ran in the 2006 election campaign, which criticized the then-Liberal government's support for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Funding for FoS came in part from a University of Calgary trust account.
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Without Academic Partnerships, the Tobacco Industry Loses Power
A February 9 Los Angeles Times article about University of California, Los Angeles professor Edythe London taking a $6 million grant from Philip Morris to study the brains of child smokers and monkeys addicted to nicotine once again raises questions about the appropriateness of university researchers accepting tobacco industry funding. Philip Morris denied that they have a stake in this particular project, but the denial had little credibility since the company no doubt will benefit from understanding more about youth smoking and nicotine addiction. After all, the future of their business depends on these two topics. Still, we wonder why any person curious enough to be engaged in scientific research isn't also curious enough to find out what's in it for Philip Morris before they accept the funds? These days, the answer is as close as your computer.
When "Social Values" Means Smoking
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When the dangers of smoking first became widely known, cigarette companies secretly hired biomedical scientists to create confusion.
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Will the Candidate Without Nuclear Industry Ties Please Stand Up?
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"As Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was blasting Sen.
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Olympics Sponsors Counseled to "Keep Quiet" on Darfur
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Corporate sponsors of this summer's Beijing Olympics Games are increasingly nervous.
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Microsoft Tells Students: We Have Rights Too, You Know
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"Education is the key to stemming illegal downloads of music and other content," concluded a new study.
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Opaque Transparency
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Green Garbage Trucks
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Waste Management, the U.S. waste disposal company that Rachel's Hazardous Waste News once called "the nation's largest polluter," has been trying to clean up its reputation.
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Unspinning the U.S. Elections
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The Center for Media and Democracy is contributing biweekly radio reports on politics and spin to "Election Unspun," a daily news show put together by Pacifica Radio and Free Speech Radio News.
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