Martin J. Cline is a prominent geneticist at UCLA who conducted groundbreaking biomedical research but also seriously violated scientific ethics rules in a 1980 experiment and worked extensively for the tobacco industry. He studied the lungs’ defense against cancer as part of Fred Seitz’s tobacco industry research program, and he testified in court on behalf of tobacco companies, arguing that it’s impossible to link any individual case of lung cancer to cigarette smoking.
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Chapter 1
...McCarty decided to fund promising but underappreciated young scientists, like the lung researcher Martin J. Cline and the protein researcher Stanley B. Prusiner.
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...that the research would create useful “friendly witnesses” for tobacco industry lawsuits, like Martin J. Cline. As late as 1997, Cline testified at a trial that it’s impossible to link any...
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...industry’s research strategy as “part of a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud.” Industry scientists like Cline didn’t deserve a fair hearing in the media or court, Oreskes and Conway argue, because...
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