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Robert Neal Proctor
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Robert Neal Proctor, Ph.D. is a science historian. He formerly worked at Pennsylvania State University, and is currently (in 2009) at Stanford University in California. He has served as a witness for the plaintiff in trials against the tobacco industry.
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Biography
From the Stanford University Web site, "Professor Proctor specializes in 20th century science, technology, and medicine, especially the history of controversy in those fields and projects on scientific rhetoric, the cultural production of ignorance (agnotology), and the history of expert witnessing." [1]
He testified in the first trial of Hess v. Philip Morris in December, 2008. In the course of giving his testimony he used a term derogatory to African Americans, which resulted in a mistrial. A second trial began in February 2009.[2]
Contact
Robert N. Proctor, Ph.D.
Professor of the History of Science
History Department, Building 200
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
Tel (650) 723-2651
Fax (650) 725-0597
Sourcewatch resources
External resources
- Robert N. Proctor Puffing on Polonium, New York Times op-ed, December 1, 2006
References
- ↑ Stanford University History Department Robert N. Proctor, accessed February 3, 2009
- ↑ Patrick Danner Tobacco lawsuit against Philip Morris going to trial again Litigation. Miami Herald. January 31, 2009
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