Are you feeling muzzled?

Alan Finder writes in the today’s issue of The New York Times (“At One University, Tobacco Money Is a Secret”) that Philip Morris USA has a contract with the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia (nota bene a public institution ) which in exchange for some, paltry it seems, research money “bars professors from publishing the results of their studies, or even talking about them, without Philip Morris’s permission”, allegedly with all intellectual property rights going to Phillip Morris USA (and/or its parent Altria Group.) I bet that the researches at the VCU are busy at work on a non-lethal, just-merely-fucking-dangerous cigarette, and have already concluded that lung cancer cannot be possibly caused by that smoking thing. Wissenschaft über alles!