| Karl-Erik Tallmo on Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:38:21 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> Even more news about Swedish tobacco scientist |
Hello all! Today the world news almost exploded with material about the Swedish scientist Ragnar Rylander, and his secret work for the tobacco industry. An article published Thursday in The Lancet, titled "The whole truth and nothing but the truth? The research that Philip Morris did not want you to see", written by Pascal Diethelm, Jean-Charles Rielle and Martin McKee, reveals to some extent new information about Philip Morris secret lab (INBIFO) in Cologne in Germany, where Rylander was coordinator and supervisor. The researchers knew about the dangers of passive smoking and so-called sidestream smoke at least from 1982 and wrote about it in approx. 800 confidential reports, but did not publish anything about this until 1994. After only a few hours there were 35 links about this at Google news, among them: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5334328 http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=948659&tw=wn_wire_story http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/Tobacco-giant-accused-of-passive-smoke-coverup/2004/11/11/1100131138779.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0411110243nov11,1,2838696.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4000417.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1348111,00.html http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6776973 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&ncid=751&e=11&u=/afp/20041110/hl_afp/health_disease_cancer http://www.healthtalk.ca/smoking_risks_11112004_3993.php http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Nov/EEN4193996221dbf.html http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/508239/ http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11352112%255E1702,00.html http://abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1241893.htm http://www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?id=1505205 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=16231 The Lancet editor Richard Horton publishes the article beforehand on the web because of its urgency: "Given the continuing debate about the way governments should respond to calls for a ban on smoking in public places, we have published this work early online to inform that discussion as a matter of urgency," Richard Horton says. This happens only little more than a week after Geneva University distanced itself from professor Rylander and even wishes to warn the entire scientific community against Rylander's research results, not just a few studies but the totality of his works over 30 years. The Lancet article itself is at: http://image.thelancet.com/extras/03art7306web.pdf Karl-Erik Tallmo __________________________________________________________________ KARL-ERIK TALLMO, Swedish writer, artist and journalist. Contributor to Nordic dailies and magazines for the last 25 years. Tallmo has written three books. He has participated as an expert in governmental investigations on new media and been a member of advisory boards, e.g. at the Royal Library, the Swedish IT Commission, and the Swedish Research Council. ARCHIVE: http://www.nisus.se/archive/artiklar.html MAGAZINE: http://art-bin.com __________________________________________________________________ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net