03/26/2026
Hello, all... just yesterday, we published in the New England Journal of Medicine a landmark paper that is the culmination of 3 years of work, and directly related to and downstream from my book Metabolical.
It is titled, "Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease: Using Industry Documents to Develop Counterstrategies".
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2507028
This was written by a new organized research unit, the Center to End Corporate Harm, a triumvirate of UCSF, Stanford, and Berkeley. We've analyzed the UCSF Industry Documents Library (idl.ucsf.edu), which has 15 million documents from the petroleum, pharma, to***co, chemical, and ultraprocessed food industries. These five industries account for one-third of deaths globally.
We've documented the Corporate Playbook:
1) Knowledge Capture
2) Regulatory and Policy Capture
3) Framing the Narrative
All corporations do this. We even have documentation that this is being coordinated at higher levels, with collusion between industries (e.g. Big To***co and Big Sugar).
This is important to help people understand where these diseases are coming from. No doubt there will be reverberations from the industry. Proud to be part of this august group:
Nicholas Chartres, PhD, UCSF and The University of Sydney
Dorie E. Apollonio, PhD, MPP, UCSF
Lisa A Bero, PhD, University of Colorado
Stella Bialous, RN, DrPH, UCSF
Eric Crosbie, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno
Yogi H. Hendlin, PhD, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, UCSF
Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBA UCSF
Kelly R. Knight, PhD, UCSF
Pamela M. Ling, MD MPH, UCSF
Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL, UCSF
Rita F Redberg, M.D.MSc, UCSF
Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, UCSF
Kate Tasker, MLIS, UCSF
Arianne Teherani, PhD, UCSF
Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, Stanford University
If you want to know more about the Center to End Corporate Harm, here are two links:
https://prhe.ucsf.edu/c2ech
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-center-to-end-corporate-harm/
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