Friedman LC, Daynard RA, and CN Banthin. How Tobacco Friendly Science Escapes Scrutiny in the Courtroom. Am J Public Health, Supplement (July 2005).

Abstract:

Although the tobacco industry helped fund the attack on “junk science,” it has created its own dubious scientific scholarship for its expert witnesses. We suggest that plaintiffs’ counsel should be proactive in using Daubert hearings to exclude the tobacco industry defendants’ scientific expert witnesses by introducing documentation, such as we have found through researching previously privileged internal industry documents, to prove that much of their proposed testimony was developed by and for their lawyers.

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