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How about saying no?

It would be “very jaundiced” to think a drug company would give money to University of Wisconsin researchers to encourage them to promote the company?s drugs, says J. David Haddox, an executive at Purdue Pharma, a company based in Stamford, Conn.

And yet?.?.?.

What if you knew that over a period of years, Purdue Pharma had paid the UW Pain & Policy Studies Group about $1.6 million? Or that altogether, the group had received $2.5 million in recent years from pharmaceutical companies?