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European Union: shock at Rylander appointment

d.simpson@iath.org

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Almost anyone toiling at the coal face of tobacco control knows the name of Ragnar Rylander, and for the most alarming of reasons. Therefore, how could the Swedish scientist have been appointed to the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks of the European Commission, the secretariat of the European Union? How could advisers to Health Commissioner David Byrne, renowned for his strong leadership on tobacco control, have failed to note the widespread publicity given to Rylander over recent years? This was especially notorious in the period when he was first exposed for his longstanding, covert association with Philip Morris, then his defamation case against his detractors, and finally their successful appeal.

After that, one would have thought he might have quietly retired, say to a remote Swedish lakeside retreat, to contemplate his years of secret service to the corporate corruptors of the scientific literature, especially on passive smoking. Instead, . . . [Full text of this article]