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Jump to full article: Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, 2008-06-30
Intro: I just received the print edition of the May 29 Times-Dispatch, in which I noticed an editorial about VCU and Philip Morris, "Not Enough Research." . . .
This begs the question of why VCU itself has agreed to create a panel to investigate the matter. But more importantly, in my opinion, it enables VCU to set a bizarre standard of sorts, namely that as long as VCU isn't engaged in Philip Morris-funded research into safer cigarettes, then everything is hunky-dory. On the one hand, this could be interpreted as VCU's acknowledgment that such research would be pointless, absurd, or just plain wrong. But on the other hand, it condones the acceptance of most if not all other kinds of Philip Morris-funded research. This in turn calls to mind the matter of MCV's Institutional Review Board possible approval for human subjects research funded by Philip Morris. How utterly immoral such a situation would be. And just what might such subjects be agreeing to? To keep smoking throughout the experiment?
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