Annie Thébaud-Mony, La science asservie. Santé publique : les collusions mortifères entre industriels et chercheurs

Environmental and Corporate Crimes

“…In France, one may even wonder whether they are not particularly strong because of the high level of collusion between the world of political leaders from the "grandes écoles" (in particular the National School of Administration [ENA] and high engineering schools, what Bourdieu [1989] called the "noblesse d'État") and that of economic leaders, collusion which is reflected in particular in common practices of "slipping" (Bouzidi et al, 2010;Rouban, 2010) as well as recurring problems of conflicts of interest and corruption. The case of the Ministry of Health and Pharmaceutical Industry is now well known, but it is far from being the only one (Thébaud-Mony, 2014;Lenglet, Touly, 2015). Far from being reduced, the "scrambling" is in fact increasing between the defense of the general interest and that of private interests (France, Vauchez, 2017;Cassia, 2018).…”