News: Corporate witch hunting in academia

Cancer, Chemicals and History

by JON WIENER

[from the February 7, 2005 issue of The Nation]

Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States have
launched a campaign to discredit two historians who have studied the
industry's efforts to conceal links between their products and
cancer. In an unprecedented move, attorneys for Dow, Monsanto,
Goodrich, Goodyear, Union Carbide and others have subpoenaed and
deposed five academics who recommended that the University of
California Press publish the book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly
Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Gerald Markowitz and David
Rosner.

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