The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tom Bartlett
February 29, 2016
Corporate influence over science tends to be subtle. Just as
politicians who solicit donations from Wall Street banks deny allegiance to
their backers, scientists insist that the money they accept from industry does
not alter their scholarly conclusions. Surely no university researcher would
ever admit being in cahoots with a company.
Not usually, anyway. In November, the Associated Press obtained emails
sent by James O. Hill, a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University
of Colorado at Denver and director of the university’s Center for Human
Nutrition, to executives at the Coca-Cola Company.
