They look much more like industry front groups to me".
This is a pharmaceutical industry front group, pure and simple.
"A drug industry front group is spending millions claiming Shaw lowered the cost of prescription drugs.
Then: A year earlier in March 1997, Milloy became the executive director of the tobacco-industry front group The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.
He made the oil industry front and center of his revolution, all at a time of soaring oil prices this decade.
The filings also revealed funding for the George C Marshall Institute, the Institute for Energy Research, and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which are seen as industry front groups.
The funding spanned trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as conservative thinktanks and was exposed in court filings last month.
My favourite is the one that says we are a CIA or oil-industry front intended to discredit research into free and clean energy.
In the early 1990s, Palmer, then the lobbyist for the Western Fuels Association, a consortium of coal industry groups, founded the Greening Earth Society, one of the first industry front groups to promote misinformation about climate change.
The Times said editorially, "The refusal of two relatively small companies-Inland and Kaiser-to join the parade started by U. S. Steel forced a collapse of the industry front in support of higher prices".
Your article about malfunctioning heart defibrillators ("Troubling Flaws in Heart Device Shake Industry," front page, April 7) is just the latest example of how medical implants can become ticking time bombs because of weak federal oversight.
