“This report is characterized by … an ignorance of epidemiological issues,” wrote one reviewer at the federal Centers for Disease Control. The American Industrial Health Council, an industry research group, denounced the study as biased, and even one of Zelen’s colleagues at Harvard stated, “It was an incredible mistake to use as interviewers people who have a self-interest in the outcome. To my mind, that just destroys the credibility of it right there.”

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 640