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His early years were spent in conducting physical measurements of the tribes of native Americans, and collecting artefacts and myths for the Peabody Museum as a staff member. He helped the State Department determine the tribal boundaries of the tribal reservations. When The key to Seltzer's remarkable success over many decades was that when he began to work for the tobacco industry he was able to exploit:* The Harvard University name. Since the Peabody Museum was on the grounds of Harvard, he was able to use Harvard University letterhead, and promote himself as if he were a professorial medical fellow of the University.
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==Background to the deception==
Seltzer was born in 1908 and took his PhD in physical anthropology at Harvard in 1933. His early years were spent in conducting physical measurements of the tribes of native Americans, and collecting artefacts and myths for the Peabody Museum as a staff member. He helped the State Department determine the tribal boundaries of the tribal reservations. Peabody Musuem is actually part of Harvard University. When he began working for the tobacco industry, he did this as...# "Dr Carl Seltzer of Harvard University", and since he attacked the idea that smoking created heart problems, the media assumed he was a professor of cardiology at Harvard. He didn't disillusion them. His payments were laundered through the Peabody Museum.# The second stage was when the tobacco lobbying business took over to the point where Peabody Museum decided not to provide him with cover. He shifted over the use Professor Frederick Stare, the Head of the Nutrition Department at Harvard to provide the money laundering service, Stare himself was a lobbyist for the chemical and food industries.# At a later stage again, he shifted back to the Peabody Museum where a new executive provided him with the money laundering service.# He retired.
* His Doctorate in physical anthropology was assumed by the media to be a medical accreditation, since he spoke about smoking and heart disease. He just didn't disabuse the journalists on this matter.
* He always distributed to journalists copies of previous articles where he was credited as being a Professor from Harvard, and a heart specialist, since he attacked the idea that smoking could cause heart failure -- but avoided questions of lung-cancer. Eventually the reports became fixed on him being a Harvard Cardiologist. The media never checked.
