Research funding, conflicts of interest, and the meta-methodology of public relations.

'Notes for Memo 2:\n\nThis article describes PR firms and their methods to separate themselves from the corporation they are supporting in order to seem like a neutral third party.  It also discusses bias and failure to disclose monetary sources.\nThis article will help form the framework for my thesis. \nPublic Health Reports, where this article appears, is a peer-reviewed journal.  Both the authors are investigative journalists rather than academics, however.\n\n - mcdevl2'