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Walter L. Barker, M.D. was a thoracic surgeon and clinical professor at the University of Illinois. He was also the head of thoracic surgery at the Cook County Hospital and Rush Hospital in Illinois
He was for some time the President of the Thoracic Surgeon's Society, and he was famous enough for the CEO or Philip Morris to quote him during his deposition in the Minnesota trial. Barker was also a recipient of the CTR Special Projects #4 grants, who elected to be funded through the secret accounts. (CTR Special Projects)
Documents & Timeline
1987 Aug 8 Walter Barker was an Expert on Specific Causation and gave a deposition in the Cipollone v. Liggett, et al case. His deposition was 260 pages on 8/8/87. [1]
1989 Sept 29 He has been meeting with the infamous tobacco lawyers, Shook Hardy & Bacon "Over medical Issues." This is part of the SH&B account for their "Medical Witness Maintainance and Development program." (p 47) This part of the bill was payable by Brown & Williamson. [2]
1995 Jan An Australian Philip Morris "Industry Issues" document with key message points. (Note: 215 pages)
Dr Barker cited the following anomalies:
- Lung cancer was on the rise before smoking became popular in the 1920s .
- Cancer of the trachea is rare even though its histology is the same as that of the lung and the trachea is constantly exposed to smoke in smokers .
- The rate of laryngeal cancer has remained remarkably stable, despite a cellular composition like that of the lung and trachea .
- The amount of smoke exposure (dose) does not affect the time when lung cancer is diagnosed .
- Fewer than 10 percent of smokers develop lung cancer.
- Various demographic anomalies like Japanese men who smoke much more than American men but have half the lung cancer rate.
[3]
- [To still be arguing the case in 1995 that cigarettes didn't cause lung cancer is quite amazing. It shows a closed mine or an open pocket-book, or both.]
Court-declared list of scientists
Note: this is just a partial list of the scientists, academics and 'consultants' who were being paid via Special Project accounts. It deals only with the scientists known to the courts at the time it was compiled. Many other academics and professionals were paid via these accounts as revealed at later dates.
The Council of Tobacco Research (CTR) was a tobacco front group designed to promote the idea that science had not proven cigarettes were bad for your health. Those listed below were scientists funded by tobacco to confuse the scientific issues.
Grants made via the CTR's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) may be legitimate (or not), but those made through the secret Special Account #4 were effectively bribes. |
| UNDATED: But possibly 1975 — INDIVIDUALS OBTAINING SECRET GRANTS THROUGH CTR Special Account #4 |
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| Domingo M Aviado | Lauren V Ackerman | George Albee | James Ballenger |
| Alvan L Barach | Walter L Barker | Broda O Barnes SP#41
W-BRF, Colorado State Uni. | Walter Becker |
| Peter Berger | Rodger L Bick | Theodore H Blau | Richard Bing |
| Evelyn J Bowers | Thomas H Brem | Irvin Blose | Walter M Booker |
| Oliver Brooke | Richard Brotman | Lyman A Brewer SP#47
School of Medicine, USC, LA | Barbara B Brown SP#50
PANA Res.Found., Sepulveda CA |
| K Alexander Brownlee | Katherine Bryant | Victor B Buhler | Thomas H Burford |
| J Harold Burn | Marie Burnett | Maurice Campbell | Duane Carr |
| Rune Cederlof | Domenic V Cicchetti | Martin J Cline | W Clark Cooper |
| Anthony M Cosentino | Daniel Cox | Gertrude M Cox | |
| Geza De Takato | Bertram D Dimmens | Charles Dunlap | Henry W Elliott |
| J Earle Estes | Frederick J Evans | William Evans | Hans J Eysenck SP#60/65
Uni of London, UK. |
| Jack M Farris | Sherwin J Feinhandler | Alvan R Feinstein SP#2
Yale Uni, New Haven, Conn | Herman Feldman |
| Edward Fickes | Theodor N Finley | Melvin W First | Edwin R Fisher |
| Russel S Fisher | Merritt W Foster | Richard Freedman | Herbert Freudenberger |
| Arthur Furst | Nicholas Gerber | Menard M Gertler | Jean D Gibbons |
| Carl Glasser | Donald Goodwin | Bernard G Greenberg | Alan Griffen |
| Finn Gyntelberg | William Heavlin | Norman W Heimstra | Joseph Herkson |
Richard J. Hickey SP#56
Wharton School, U of Penn. | Carlos Hilado | Harold C Hodge | Charles H Hine |
| Gary L Huber | Wilhelm C Hueper | Darrell Huff | Duncan Hutcheon |
| Joseph J Janis | Roger A Jenkins | Marvin Kastenbaum | Marti Kirschbaum |
Leonard A Katz SP#3
Michigan State Uni, East Lansing | Lawrence L Kuper | Mariano La Via | Hiram T Langston SP#4
VA Hospital, Hines IL |
| William G Leaman | Michael Lebowitz | Samuel B Lehrer | William Lerner |
| Edward Raynar Levine | Gerald J Lieberman | Stephen C Littlechild | Eleanor Macdonald |
| Nathan Mantel | Ross McFarland | Thomas F Mancuso SP#67
Occ.Health, Uni of Pittsburgh | Milton Meckler |
| Nancy Mello | Jack Mendelson | Irvin Miller | Marc Micozzi |
| Kenneth M Moser | Albert H Niden | Judith O'Fallon | John O'Lane |
| William B Ober | Joseph H Ogura | Ronald Okun | Ingram Olkin |
| Thomas L Petty | Leslie Preger | Walter J. Priest | Richard Proctor |
| Terrence P Pshler | Herbert L. Ratcliffe | Attilio Renzetti | L.G.S. Rao |
| Raymond H Rigdon | Jay Roberts | Milton B Rosenblatt | John Rosencrans |
| Walter Rosenkrantz | Ray H Rosenman | Linda Russek | Henry Russek |
| Ragnar Rylander | George L Saiger | D.E. Sailagyi | I Richard Savage |
| Richard S Schilling | Stanley S Schor | Gerhard N Schrauzer | Charles Schultz |
| John Schwab | Carl C Seltzer | Paul Shalmy | Robert Shilling |
| Henry Shotwell | Allen Silberberg | N. Skolnik | James F Smith SP#43
Uni of Tennessee, Memphis |
| Louis A. Soloff | Sheldon C Sommers (CTR) | JB Spalding | Charles Spielberg |
| Charles Spielberger | Lawrence Spielvogel | Russell Stedman | Arthur Stein |
| Elia Sterling | Theodor Sterling SP#51/58/61/62
Washington U, St Louis | Thomas Szasz | Paul Toannidis |
| Chris P Tsokos | Helmut Valentin | Richard Wagner | Norman Wall |
| Roger Wilson | Jack Wiseman | George Wright | John P Wyatt |
Jacob Yerushalmy SP#59
SPH UC Berkely+ Stats, Jerusalem | Irving Zeidman | |
| ORGANISATIONS OBTAINING SECRET GRANTS THROUGH CTR Special Account #4 |
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| Aleph Foundation | Arthur D. Little | Aspen Conference | Atmospheric Health Sciences
(Domingo M Avido) |
ACVA Atlantic
(Gray Robertson) | Able-Lands | Battelle Columbus Laboratories | Battelle Memorial Institute |
| Billings & Gussman | BioResearch Laboratories
(L.G.S. Rao) | Brigham Young University | Colucci & Associates |
| Cohen Coleghety Foundation | Code Consultants Inc. | Carney Enterprises | Computerland |
| | Engineered Energy Management | Environmental Policy Institute | Eysenck Institute of Psychiatry
(Hans J Eysenck) |
| Fudenberg | Harvard Medical School | Hine Inc.
(Charles H Hine) | Information Intersciences |
| International Consultancy | International Technology Corporation | International Information Institute | J.B. Spalding Statistical Service |
| J.F. Smith Research Account | Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan | Kravetz Levine & Spotnitz | Shook, Hardy & Bacon |
| Michigan State University | Meckler Engineering Group
(Milton Meckler) | Peat, Marwick Main & Co. | R.W. Andersohn & Assoc. |
| Pitney, Hardin & Kipp | Public Smoking Research Group | Response Analysis Project
(Alfred Vogel/Reuben Cohen) | Response Analysis Corporation
(Alfred Vogel/Reuben Cohen) |
| Schirmer Engineering Corp. | St. George Hospital & Medical School | Stanford Research Institution Project | Found. for Res. in Bronchial Asthma and Related Diseases |
| The Futures Group | University of South Florida | Wayne State University | Weinberg Consulting Group
(Myron Weinberg) |
| Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation | | | |
| DOUBLE-HIDDEN SPECIAL GRANTS paid through the companies/itself |
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| CTR (paid itself) | Hearings-Kennedy-Hart Bill | Industry Research Liaison Committee | Philip Morris
Thomas S Osdene |
RJ Reynolds
Murray Senkus | |
Sources: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-dcd-1_99-cv-02496/pdf/USCOURTS=dcd-1_99-cv-02496-4.pdf
See also [4] and this 1972-81 list with the total amounts paid: [5] This is not an exhaustive list.<br The CTR also has a special site with an index under the Minnesota Agreement. (not very useful) [6]
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These are CTR Special Project grantees now known not to have been included in the above list: [7]
- SP#1 Kurt Enslein, Computers, Uni of Rochester NY
- SP#33 S H Friedall, Cancer Research Inst, New England Deaconness Hospital, Boston.
- SP#42 Doris L Herman, pathologist, Uni of Southern California, Los Angeles(worked with Lyman Brewer.
- SP#44 William H Alban, pathologist, Houston Dept of Public Heath/Baylor Uni (worked with Eleanor MacDonald
- SP#45/63 Douglas M Sprunt, pathologist, Golightly Found. + Uni of Tennessee, College of Medicine, Memphis
- SP#46, SP#24, SP#25, Marcus M Mason, research lab owner, Mason Research Institute, Worcester, Mass
- SP#48 William J Bair, animal inhalation exp., Battelle Memorial Inst, Richland, Washington
- SP#49 David M Kissen psychologist/psychosmatic, Uni of Glasgow, Scotland
- SP#52 Frederick J Stare, Nutrition Dept, Harvard Un (laundering payment for Carl C Seltzer
- SP#53 Travis W Winsor, Memorial Heart Res. Foundation, LA CA
- SP#54 A Clifford Barger, Prof.Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- SP#55 Lars T Friberg Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (Partner with Rune Cederlof)
- SP#57 Hans Selye, Institute of Exp. Med. and Surgery, Uni of Montreal, Canada
- SP#64 William L Dunn, Philip Morris executive.
- SP#66 Jerome Kleinerman, pathologist, St Lukes Hospital, Cleverland OH/Western Reserve Uni.
- SP#68 ]]H Hugh Fudenberg]], University of California, San Franciso. (Working with John V Wells
- SP#69 Claus B Bahnson, East PA Psychiatric Institute, Philadelphia
References
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- ↑ (PMI's Revised Initial Disclosure, June 27, 1996)
