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The article discusses what the author refers to as the information that public health practitioners need to know regarding unhealthy industry tactics which include attacks aimed at legitimate science and scientists. Junk science and the creation of arms-length front groups, organizations, and research institutes that create their own scientific studies are examined, as well as manufactured controversies, political agenda influencing, and the funding of disinformation campaigns.
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