Bending Science: How special interests corrupt public health research is a 2008 book by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, published by Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

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. Bending Science has been called a "fascinating and troubling investigation" of the ways science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 is manipulated in the process of public policy

Public policy

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-making and legal decision-making. The authors present an encyclopedia of case studies, undertaken largely by industry, to distort the scientific endeavor.

Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner are both University of Texas law professors.