James O Hill

Disney Tried to Suppress Food Study it Funded

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Corporations may want to think twice about hiring industry-friendly professors to publish studies about their products – as Disney recently realized, but too late. As Sheila Kaplan first reported in STAT News, new emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know reveal that Disney paid friendly professors to study children’s food at its parks, then tried … Disney Tried to Suppress Food Study it Funded

Journalists fail to reveal sources funded by Coca-Cola: A short report

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During the investigation and subsequent collapse of the Coca-Cola front group Global Energy Balance Network, the New York Times and Associated Press discovered that prominent university professors working on obesity issues had been funded by The Coca-Cola Company. This is not just a public health scandal. It is a journalistic one as well. Journalists have … Journalists fail to reveal sources funded by Coca-Cola: A short report