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Corporate Science Wants You to Buy the World a Coke / Susan Greenhalgh

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There are tens of thousands of these interstitial organizations between the big corporate sector and the average citizen. They're structured usually as nonprofits, like a nonprofit in the case of obesity, had branches all around the world and as a nonprofit. We think, “that's innocuous. That's harmless.They're just doing good work.” Actually, we need to look at them because they're the ones who are spreading the commercialization of science. They present themselves as a scientific organization. They're funded by industry. They have lots of ways of pulling in scientists who don't really realize they're getting sucked into a project in corporate science or the commercialization of science.

Susan Greenhalgh joins us to discuss her new book, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca Cola (University of Chicago Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

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Susan Greenhalgh

 
Susan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita at Harvard University. She is the author of Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain, and Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China, among other books.