How Big Sugar Ushered In a New Era of Anti-Science Corporate PR

The original spin doctors weren't working for Big Tobacco. They were representing sugar.

By Lindsay Abrams

Where did Big Oil, Big Pharma and other industries learn to manipulate public policy to best serve their bottom line? The engaging new documentary Merchants of Doubt argues that they’re all following a battle plan borrowed from the tobacco industry.

As for the tobacco industry, they learned it from Big Sugar.