William F. Patry Quotes
Lobbynomics
William F. Patry, Copyright Scholar and Expert, Copyright Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Term coined to reflect the relatively recent trend to use lobbying to accomplish what economics formally did
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In the 1960s, the cigarette companies and their lobbyists paid consultants and some scientists to demonstrate that tobacco did not cause cancer. By the beginning of the 21st century, the practice of lobbyist bought research was very common. The lobbyists realized that their many might alter the approach and quality of the research so the results would support their political points of view. If the studies did not, the lobbyists and industries simply did not make the results public, and the terms of their financing often prohibited the consultants from releasing information on their own,
He made this quotation when he was a member of the Wisconsin State legislator. He was describing the influence and interaction that corporations had with the Wisconsin state legislative process.
Synar was one of the members of Congress that finally mounted the first agenda which grew steadily and once the American public realized that cigarettes was by far the largest preventable cause of death of Americans. Even after all the effort and improvement, the tobacco companies facilitated over 300,000 deaths a year. See {637256} for the responsibility of the tobacco companies.
William F. Patry is an American lawyer specializing in copyright law. He studied at the San Francisco State University, where he obtained a B.A. in 1974 and an M.A. in 1976, and then at the University of Houston, where he graduated with a J.D. in 1980. He was admitted to the bar in Texas in 1981, in the District of Columbia in 2000, and in New York in 2001.
