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Industry Interests & Interference

Industry Interference - Medicine

Poor studies with no peer review

Industry Gain

Hospitals knew a heart device led to more patients' deaths - but they kept using it - retrieved 2025-11-13

Tobacco

Asbestos - issues discovered in 1900

Industry Gain - Food & Drink

See sweeteners as an example

Poor studies with no peer review

Food pyramid

The 'war on fat': https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report

Industry Saving - Healthcare

Cheaping out.

This may be an example, although the stated reason is that traditional surgery has a higher failure rate: Vaginal mesh implants: Hundreds sue NHS over 'barbaric' treatment.

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