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LETTER: Why cry foul over tobacco-funded research?  

"Tobacco funded Mass. researchers," as a desperate attempt by your paper to sensationalize and distort the facts.

Philip Morris is likened to the Mafia, yet the last I checked, cigarettes are legal . . .

The MIT researcher said that his funding had no strings attached, nor did any of the other examples. In an era when our federal government can barely spell the word science, I fail to see the rationale for an investigator turning down grants of this kind.

In fact, isn't this what we would all want Philip Morris to do with its profits?

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