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TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2013, 11:52 AM Oct 2013

Georgia Pacific (Koch Ind.) & The Fabrication of Scientific Data to Fight Asbestos Lawsuits

Check out the following Salon Article:

Facing asbestos lawsuits, paper giant launched research program
Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific sought salvation in a secret program designed prove its product didn't cause cancer
By Jim Morris

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/21/facing_asbestos_lawsuits_paper_giant_launched_research_program/

It claims the company ran with the playbook from the tobacco settlements.

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they also held off KT2000 Oct 2013 #1

KT2000

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1. they also held off

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Mon Oct 21, 2013, 12:41 PM

Oct 2013

classification of formaldehyde as a carcinogen. And by that I mean one of the brothers who served on a committee responsible for such things. GP - largest formaldehyde producer. I am guessing they must own a chain of funeral homes too.

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