For a Few Dollars More: Academic Ideals Go Up in Smoke

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 13:49

Writing in the New York Times, Stephanie Saul reported on an unusual research program at Virginia Commonwealth University:

a contract with extremely restrictive terms that the university signed in 2006 to do research for Philip Morris USA , the nation’s largest tobacco company and a unit of Altria Group .

The contract bars professors from publishing the results of their studies, or even talking about them, without Philip Morris’s permission.

If 'a third party,' including...

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