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Credibility Concerns Lead NIH To End Study Of Alcohol's Health Effects

Scientists and National Institutes of Health officials met with alcohol company executives and appeared to solicit money from them in violation of government policy. The NIH canceled the study.
Party's over for a federal study about the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption.

A huge study on the possible health benefits of drinking alcohol will be completely shut down, because its credibility was compromised by frequent and early interactions between alcohol industry executives, scientists and government officials.

That was the decision made by , the director of the National Institutes of Health. "Is it even possible at this point that

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