E-M:/ Journal devoted to corporate corruption of science

[Tracey Easthope <tracey@ecocenter.org>]

Title: Journal devoted to corporate corruption of science

This month's issue of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health has an entire issue devoted to "corporate corruption of science' with case studies illustrating the point.  This follows on the American Journal of Public Health devoting an issue to some similar concerns.  Michigan industries are implicated in the case studies.

Note that this is a free full text online journal. See table of contents below.

To access the journal:  http://www.ijoeh.com/

This is from the online introduction:

"Although occupational and environmental diseases are often viewed as isolated and unique failures of science, the government, or industry to protect the best interest of the public, they are in fact an outcome of a pervasive system of corporate priority setting, decision making, and influence. This system produces disease because political, economic, regulatory and ideological norms prioritize values of wealth and profit over human health and environmental well-being. Science is a key part of this system; there is a substantial tradition of manipulation of evidence, data, and analysis, ultimately designed to maintain favorable conditions for industry at both material and ideological levels. This issue offers examples of how corporations influence science, shows the effects that influence has on environmental and occupational health, and provides evidence of a systemic problem."

IJOEH Vol. 11, No. 4 October-December, 2005

All articles are available as PDF files   at www.ijoeh.com

Corporate Corruption of Science

Guest Editor: David S. Egilman, MD, MPH, Susanna Rankin Bohme, AM

 

Over a Barrel: Corporate Corruption of Science and Its Effects on Workers and the Environment

David S. Egilman, MD, MPH, Susanna Rankin Bohme, AM

 

Industry Influence on Health and the Environment: Fantasy, Paranoia, Reality?

An Insider's Personal Experience

James Huff, PhD 

 

Maximizing Profit and Endangering Health: Corporate Strategies to Avoid Litigation and Regulation

Susanna Rankin Bohme, AM, John Zorabedian, David S. Egilman, MD, MPH

 

Lifting the Veil of Secrecy from Industry Funding of Nonprofit Health Organizations

Michael F. Jacobson, PhD

 

Business Bias: Or How an Increased Risk of Cancer and Other Diseases May Be Underestimated or Remain Undetected in Epidemiological Studies

Valerio Gennaro, MD, PhD, Lorenzo Tomatis, MD

 

Abuse of Epidemiology: The Automobile Manufacturers Manufacture a Defense to

Asbestos Liability

David S. Egilman, MD, MPH, Marion A. Billings

 

Safeguarding Scientific Evaluations of Governmental Agencies: A Case Study of

OSHA and 1,3-Butadiene

Peter Infante, DDS, DrPH

 

Industry Efforts to Weaken EPA Health Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene

Jennifer Beth Sass, PhD

 

Ethyl leaded gasoline:  How a Classic Occupational Disease Became an

International Public Health Disaster

William Kovarik, PhD  

 

Mining and Mendacity or How to Keep a Toxic Product in the Marketplace

Jock McCulloch, PhD

 

Fluoride Poisoning:  A Puzzle with Hidden Pieces

Phyllis J. Mullinex, PhD

 

The Dirty Work of "Recycling" America's Sewage Sludge

Caroline Snyder, PhD

 

Genetic Engineering in Agriculture and Corporate Engineering in Public

Debate: Risk, Public Relations, and Public Debate over Genetically Modified Crops

Rajeev Patel, MSc PhD, Robert J. Torres, MS, PhD, Peter Rosset, MSc, PhD

 

Who's Afraid of National Laws?: Pesticide Corporations Use Trade Negotiations

to Avoid Bans and Undercut Public Health Protections in Central America

Erika Rosenthal, JD, MSL

 

A Systemic Approach to Occupational and Environmental Health

Skip Spitzer, MA

 

Letter to the Editor

 

Response to Rothman and Arellano

David S. Egilman, MD, MPH, Susanna Rankin Bohme, AM