August 5, 2005

Safety at Work

To the Editor:

The article "Occupational Hazards" (The Chronicle, June 24) addresses an important issue: the private sponsorship of research in the public interest. Concerns about the growing role of industry funding of research are not unique to occupational health, and they are not new. ...

You cited the Health Effects Institute as one exception to the rule that industry and academia cannot coexist. ... Other successful models are those developed by the Electric Power Research