Study on Moderate Drinking Shutdown

A ten year long $100 million study by the National Institute of Health into moderate drinking has seen shut down by NIH director Francis S. Collins. A Washington Post article, NIH cancels $100 million study of moderate drinking as irrevocably compromised (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nih-cancels-100-million-study-of-moderate-drinking-as-irrevocably-compromised/2018/06/15/21f09fe2-7007-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html?utm_term=.7c99e0ba5256), notes that the study was “irrevocably compromised the research by soliciting $66 million from beer and liquor companies to underwrite the effort (Wan, Bernstein).” There was more than just solicitation going on, “the staff at an institute under NIH met with major liquor companies [and] talked to them about the trial’s design (Wan, Bernstein).” This discovery could be the tip of an iceberg and an official NIH inquiry is “examining the wider issue of possible industry influence on NIH-funded research overall (Wan, Bernstein).”

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