I went back to papers by these authors to look for conflicts of interest and found papers from 2011 and 2012 that stated clearly that there were none to declare.59-61 But in 2015, some scientists sent freedom of information requests to the universities that employed these and other scientists.62 In response they received 36,931 pages of documents, including emails between the scientists and Rhona Applebaum, then chief science officer of the Coca-Cola corporation. Thanks to these requests, and a huge amount of subsequent journalism and research, we now understand the depth of Coke’s influence
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