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Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2008-02-14
Intro: As a graduate of the UCLA School of Public Health, I am dismayed to learn of Philip Morris funding being accepted for tobacco research. The professed naivete of the undoubtedly qualified scientist and UCLA officials is more troubling. A modicum of research would show them that the only reason the tobacco industry takes such actions is to increase profits -- which necessitates addicting people.
The industry's motive is far from "immaterial," as UCLA's vice chancellor for research must know -- it's called the profit motive. It will taint any published research that might result from this work.
This study, as any other study involving human or animal subjects at UCLA, has gone through the federally mandated review, and its results will be published in peer-reviewed literature without interference from funders. To insinuate that this study is tainted by its sponsor, or because it uses animals and deals with adolescents who are addicted, is unfair and misleading.
--Roberto Peccei / Vice Chancellor for Research UCLA, Westwood
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