Juul: Taking Academic Corruption to a New Level
prospect.org
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to ‘prove’ that its product has a public benefit.
    • @Thann
      4•3 years ago

      Conflict of Interest Statement
      Through PinneyAssociates, Saul Shiffman provides consulting services on tobacco harm reduction on an exclusive basis to Juul Labs Inc. In that role, he acted as internal editor and coordinator for the papers in this special issue. (Within the last 2 years, PinneyAssociates has also consulted for British American Tobacco and Reynolds American Inc and subsidiaries on tobacco harm reduction.) Erik Augustson is a full-time employee of Juul Labs Inc. As Senior Director of Behavioral Affairs at JLI, he oversaw the conduct of the behavioral research reported in this special issue.

      Doesn’t mention that every researcher was also an employee of Juul Labs =/

  • Makan ☭ CPUSA
    2•3 years ago

    Scholarly journals can be both good and bad. I’d be careful with making sweeping generalizations (not that you or the article did, of course), but I think more people should read academic journals and get acquainted with them, even some of the bad ones (but mostly the good or great ones, of course).

    @AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml