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Letter: On research bias and corporate influence (2)

Published 25 June 2025

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Woodruff talks about the danger of bias in supposedly scientific studies. Bias always exists, even in this interview. For instance, it implies chemical firms didn’t care that perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can harm people, rather than considering the possibility that executives didn’t know some of these chemicals don’t simply go to the ocean and get diluted to negligible concentrations – they stay on the surface, get into the air and then .

Issue no. 3549 published 28 June 2025

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