Large-scale research on 11 billion yen alcohol drinking is canceled, due to the issue of funds from the alcoholic beverage industry

The National Institutes of Health(NIH) had a clinical trial of investing $ 100 million (about 11 billion yen) as much money as possible and continuing to drink alcohol every day. But,Alcoholic beverage industry aimed for funds for researchersAs the report was made, NIH conducted an internal investigation. And announced that research was discontinued on the basis that inappropriate facts were revealed.

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I was investigating this enormous budget and is a National Alcohol Abuse and Addiction Research Institute (NIAAA) which conducts research on alcohol among NIH. At NIAAA, if I continued drinking alcohol every day for 7,800 subjects, I had been undertaking a clinical trial of how the human body would be affected by the 10-year plan.

However, in March 2018, NIH staff was informed that they had contacted the alcoholic beverage industry and were talking about receiving funding of 67.7 million dollars (about 7.5 billion yen), which is over half the research budget . According to the report, the researchers participated in a conference of industry associations and received a lecture on the test method to intentionally indicate that moderate drinking is healthy.


Francis Collins, director of the NIH, set up an advisory committee to investigate this issue and started an internal investigation. According to the survey, the person who participated in this research confirmed the fact that he frequently exchanged with an alcohol worker, an external scientist, an alcoholic research organization person by e-mail. For this reason, the Advisory Committee decided on June 15, 2018 that the research could be tampered with that which is convenient for the alcoholic beverage industry, and Mr. Collins approved it. .

The advisory committee says, "The fact that we are in contact with people in the industry at an early stage of research and are interacting frequently leads to questioning the fairness of research and ensuring the validity of the research results It is not possible to do "in the report, and even if there is not in fact inappropriate relationship, it is pointed out that it is a problem to have some means of communication with the industry stakeholders.

Michael Siegel, professor of social health science at Boston University, said, "This decision shows that NIH emphasizes science rather than financial interactions," said NIH's decision to protect science I appreciate what I did.