Essays

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A short guide for your essays.
What you should focus on is: How did industry lawyers, research directors, and academic researchers coordinate their efforts? How did tobacco companies weaponize science for their own benefits. Who were the central nodes in these networks?

• Sirena, Angelica, Kidist, Jessica: Lawyers
• Angel, Christina, Raquel: Research Directors
• Jordan, Ife, Crista: Theodore Sterling

To get you started:

• Have a look at the network itself by rendering the relevant json (person_lawyers.json, person_research_directors.json, person_sterling.json). This will give you a sense of who the most important people in your network are
• Read: http://tobacco-analytics.org/case/ctr, in particular for the Sterling and lawyers group, which will give you an overview of how tobacco companies coordinated their campaign to create doubt about smoking's health harm
• Use Robert Proctor's Golden Holocaust as your guide to the main people in your network. Obviously don't read it cover to cover but use it as an encyclopedia: https://b-ok.cc/book/2663286/2beee9
• To do searches on the industry documents directly, use https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ and http://tobacco-analytics.org/text_passages
• Finally, as you're doing your research, think about what features would make our network visualization more useful to other researchers.