Industry influence on research has been well documented.1 2 Corporate interests influence science by driving research agendas, manipulating the design, methods and conduct of research, and selectively publishing findings or affecting interpretation of findings.3 One of the most disturbing ways that industry influences science is by attempting to change the evaluation of science, particularly for its use in policy. For example, the tobacco industry worked with established and existing business coalitions including the American Petroleum Institute, National Rifle Association, and the American Iron and Steel Institute to legislate changes in how research should be evaluated before it could be cited as evidence supporting a policy. Their goal was ‘to promote legislative solutions to ensure that public policy is based on sound science’.4 These solutions included ‘(1) to gain passage of federal law on criteria/standards for epidemiological studies; and (2) to legislate public access…