Anyone see this news item? (Headline in our paper is what I've got as subject.)
Seems the American Thoracic Society's journal has decided to no longer
publish research conducted with funds from the tobacco industry.

"The move by the scientific arm of the American Lung Asoc. is believed to be
the first instance of a medical journal instituting an across-the-board ban
of research solely on the basis of the work's funding source. Society
officials said it was not their intent to impugn the reputations of
scientists who accept money from the tobacco industry. But they felt morally
compelled to disassociate the society from the industry because of tobacco's
enormous contribution to lung disease.

"We felt that it was the only onest decision we could come to," said Alfred
Munzer, a past president of the ALA who first proposed the ban a few years
ago and helped usher it to approval bythe society's board of directors.

"But the presumption that tobaccomoney taints all that it touches is not
universally held among scientists. As a result, many in the scientific and
medical professions have found themselves in the unsual situation of siding
with the tobacco industry, which has derided the thoracic society's decision
as 'paternalistic' and 'troubling.'
'We believe that god research can be done almost regardless of where the
funding comes from,' said George Lundberg, editor of the Journal of the
American Medical Assoc."

Interesting, don't ya think? Maybe the strong stand LCs have taken regarding
research funded by AHM (artificial human milk--my favourite acronym)
companies is starting to take root elsewhere.
Leslie Ayre-Jaschke, BEd, IBCLC
Peace River Breastfeeding Clinic
Peace River Alberta, Canada