Corporate Ties That Bind ─ An Examination of Corporate Manipulation and Vested Interest in Public Health

In the 21st century, corporations have worked their way into government and, as they become increasingly more powerful, arguments about their involvement with public health have become increasingly black and white. With corporations at the center of public health and environmental issues, everything chemical or technological is good, everything natural is bad; scientists who are funded by corporations are right and those who are independent are invariably wrong. There is diminishing common ground between the two opposed sides in these arguments.

Corporate Ties that Bind is a collection of essays written by influential academic scholars, activists, and epidemiologists from around the world that scrutinize the corporate reasoning, false science and trickery involving those, like in-house epidemiologists, who mediate the scientific message of organizations who attack and censure independent voices. This book addresses how the growth of corporatism is destroying liberal democracy and personal choice.

While mobile phone entrepreneurs now finance manufacturing dynasties, there is a recent connection in those countries to a substantial increase in brain tumors. The essays included address why we are influenced by opposing messages and forewarn us of society’s toxic dangers.There is a battle taking place veering between profitability and public health and this book provides a detailed and scholarly understanding of it.

Martin Walker is an activist, investigator, and writer. He lives in Spain.