An asbestos industry dirty tricks campaign to give the deadly fibre a healthy gloss has been uncovered. A paper in the November 2003 edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine (AJIM) concludes: ‘The Canadian asbestos mining industry has a long history of manipulating scientific data to generate results that support claims that their product is ‘innocuous’.’ The US research team adds that the industry does this by retaining its own, industry sympathetic researchers.

D Egilman, C Fehnel, SR Bohme. Exposing the “myth” of ABC, “anything but chrysotile”: a critique of the Canadian asbestos mining industry and McGill University chrysotile studies, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, volume 44, number 5, pages 540-557, November 2003.

Laurie Kazan-Allen, The asbestos war, IJOEH, vol.9, no.3, pages 173-193, 2003