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To: neolib who wrote (93480)	11/3/2008 8:25:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541658

I suspect that in the specific case of smoking and lung cancer (or even in the more general area of health effects of smoking studies) that you would find the reverse. But the argument being responded to is not "some industries funded biased research" (if that's the only claim then a response might be "yes, your right some industries did fund biased and generally poor research") The argument is the more general one that industry funded research tends to be poor or heavily biased, across the board. The study mentioned in the blog post I linked to, obviously isn't broad enough to prove the opposite, or even just that the claim is false, but it is a bit of evidence against the commonly made argument.