It has been revealed that British cancer expert Richard Doll was being paid $1500 per day by Monsanto, the manufacturer of Agent Orange, at the time he told an Australian royal commission that the pesticide had no real link to cancer.
In a letter Doll said that Agent Orange "is at most, only weakly and inconsistently carcinogenic in animal experiments." Despite other evidence contradicting this claim the commission found that Agent Orange did not cause health problems in veterans.
The payment was discovered when somebody found the contract in his effects following his death. Some have defended the researcher, saying disclosure was not standard practice back then. Doll was famous for linking smoking to lung cancer.
