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The Alcohol Playbook and Its Web of Influence The Alcohol playbook and its web of influence David Miller Professor of Sociology Co-Director Public Interest Investigations Taking an evidence-based approach to reducing alcohol-related harm - Balance/ANEC Alcohol conference, 21-22 November 2013 Merchants of doubt How a loose–knit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades… Showing how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a too- compliant media, has skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era. Doubt is their product David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants… have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials, industry executives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to dispute scientific evidence about health risks. The Orwellian strategy of dismissing research conducted by the scientific community as „junk science‟ and elevating science conducted by product defense specialists to „sound science" status also creates confusion about the very nature of scientific inquiry and undermines the public's confidence in science's ability to address public health and environmental concerns Industrial Actors • Industrial actors engage in a range of tactics and strategies in order to influence the policy process. • Corporations and their proxies form complex networks across multiple levels of governance in order to develop and extend favourable trading conditions. • Such strategies are not always successful, but they are comprehensively and consciously planned and relatively unexplored. Multiple corporate voices • Media Capture: „Journo- lobbying‟. • Science Capture: funding, management, fake institutes. • Civil Society capture: Astroturf, patient groups, think tanks. • Policy Capture: populating the information environment and making that count in action. Multiple corporate voices EU level - Alcohol • Business wide lobby group . • Food industry lobby group European • Elite policy Round planning group Table • Sectoral lobby • Lobby firm group EU • Science . • Think tank management . • International think tank Multiple corporate voices - EU examples 17 memberships Science and civil society capture • From the provision of information through lobbying to „front groups‟ Social Issues Research Centre • 'fosters the image of an ultra-concerned public spirited group' and of 'a heavy-weight research body'. • It is also run by a PR/marketing company from the same address. • MCM Research used to announce on its website its approach to open and truthful communications: – „Do your PR initiatives sometimes look too much like PR initiatives? MCM conducts social/psychological research on the positive aspects of your business... The results do not read like PR literature‟. • Source: Annabel Ferriman „An end to health scares?‟ BMJ 1999;319:716- ( 11 September ) http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/319/7211/716 Civil society capture: Institute of Ideas • Created in 2000 • Based in Farringdon Road, London • Directed by Claire Fox, a former teacher • Says that it provides a public space where „ideas Claire Fox, Institute of Ideas, can be contested without in 2004. constraint‟. Institute of Ideas The Institute of Ideas claims it is committed to: •The legacy of the Enlightenment: scientific and social experimentation, intellectual ambition and curiosity •Embracing change and making history •Art for art's sake, knowledge for its own sake, and education as an end in itself. •Freedom. To think, to act, to say what needs saying - even if it offends others •Challenging irrational social panics •Open and robust debate, in which ideas can be interrogated, argued for and fought over •Civil liberties, with no ifs or buts Claire Fox, Institute of Ideas • 2001 – Culture Wars adopted as a vehicle • 2003 – Launched Debating Matters – schools debating competition • 2005 – Launched Battle of Ideas • 2005 – New York Salon, the first in a series of Salons • 2006 – Engaging Cogs – debates on engineering • 2010 – Global Uncertainties Schools Network • 2011 – The Academy launched – Summer school • 2001 – Culture Wars adopted as a vehicle • 2003 – Launched Debating Matters – schools debating competition • 2005 – Launched Battle of Ideas • 2005 – New York Salon, the first in a series of Salons • 2006 – Engaging Cogs – debates on engineering • 2010 – Global Uncertainties Schools Network • 2011 – The Academy launched – Summer school Institute of Ideas and Spiked Address: 49-51 Farringdon Directors and shareholders: Road • Claire Fox London • Ellie Lee (Eleanor Lee) (Writes for EC1M 3JP Spiked; Spiked Shareholder) United Kingdom Shareholders: Officers • Suke Wolton •Frank Furedi - company director (Spoken at the Battle of Ideas, • Jennie Bristow (Spiked launch Debating Matters, Manchester Salon, featured at Culture wars ) team, shareholder and •Helene Guldberg - company director and secretary (Battle of Ideas commissioning editor) committee 2012, featured on Culture Wars ) • Phil Mullan (Registrant of the Staff: Spiked website) •Mick Hume – founder and editor-at-large (Spoken at the Battle of Staff: Ideas, Debating Matters) • Tony Gilland (Written for Spiked) •Brendan O'Neill – editor (has spoken at the Battle of Ideas, • Tiffany Jenkins (Written for the Brighton Salon, Leeds Salon and Manchester Salon) Spiked) •Rob Lyons – deputy editor (Editor Parents Forum, Institute of Ideas) • Dolan Cummings (Written for •Nathalie Rothschild – commissioning editor (writes for Culture Wars, Spiked) is a co-ordinator for the Institute of Ideas, has spoken at the Battle of • Geoff Kidder Ideas, adjudicates for Debating Matters) • Shirley Dent (Written for Spiked) •Tim Black – senior writer (written for Culture Wars, has spoken at • Helen Birtwistle the Battle of Ideas, and the Brighton Salon and has adjudicated for Debating Matters) The road to the Institute of Ideas • 1973 Split from International Socialists, to create the Revolutionary Communist Group. • 1976 A sizable minority are expelled from the RCG. • 1977 Frank Furedi leader of the expelled faction creates the Revolutionary Communist Tendency • 1981 Changes name into the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) • 1988 RCP establishes Living Marxism • 1990 RCP begins infiltration of academic and media circles • 1996 RCP dissolves itself • 1997 Living Marxism title changed to LM • 2000 LM forced to close after it loses libel case to ITN • Spiked and Institute of Ideas launched Institute of Ideas Claire Fox, BBC TV Question Claire Fox, on BBC TV Question Time, 2004 Time 2009 Claire Foster AKA Claire Fox, as RCP candidate, May 1986 Claire Fox, 2007 Claire Fox, Sheffield, 2011 Links with conservative think tanks Corporate funding Corporate funding/support • Arup • BT Corporate funding • Cadbury Schweppes • BT • City of London • CropLife International (BASF, • Hill and Knowlton (PR firm) Bayer, Dow, DuPont, • IBM Syngenta) • International Policy Network (climate sceptic think • Jaguar Land Rover tank) • Pfizer • Luther Pendragon (PR firm) • PWC • Orange • SABMiller • O2 • Shell • Pfizer • The Times • Social Issues Research Centre (PR related firm) • Tech Central Station (PR related think tank) Views on public health Medical Research Council mission The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded organisation dedicated to improving human health by supporting world-class medical research across the biomedical spectrum. It gives a high priority to research that is likely to make a real difference to clinical practice and the health of the population. Its mission is defined by Royal Charter[1] Centres on supporting research to improve human health, disseminating knowledge and technology to improve the quality of life and economic competitiveness of the UK, promoting dialogue with the public about medical research, providing leadership in the governance of medical research, and promoting the translation of basic research discoveries into new and improved healthcare policy and practice.[2] Sources 1. Charter of the Medical Research Council. Further Supplemental Charter. 2003. 2. The Medical Research Council. About Us. [cited 2012 5 October]; Available from: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/About/Missionstatement/index.htm. Wellcome Trust mission The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving improvements in human and animal health, primarily by supporting high quality research. The Trust spends approximately £600 million every year to fulfil its mission: “supporting the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities”.[1]… Its broadly defined mission is designed to allow it to respond flexibly to medical needs and scientific opportunities. As well as tackling immediate priorities, it takes a long-term perspective in supporting research with a view to benefiting future generations.[1] Focusing on areas of unmet health need its commitment to maximising the application of research to improve health is driven by the goal of maximising health benefits.[2]… Its funding philosophy (which involves support clinical, population-based and
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