A tobacco research director publicly affirmed the industry knew Hirayama was right

Evidence

Dr. Adlkofer … believe[s] Hirayama is a good scientist and that his nonsmoking wives publication was correct… . At a meeting of the board of the research arm, Adlkofer was asked how he could continue to support the projects if Hirayama’s work was dead. He replied with a strong statement that Hirayama was correct, that the TI [Tobacco Institute] knew it and that TI published its statement about Hirayama knowing that the work was correct (Wells, 1981). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1688

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to whistleblower literature and the tobacco litigation documentary record.
• CANDY: A dramatic quote: the industry’s own science director publicly saying the Institute published knowing it was wrong.