http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/top-stories-tanked-alcohol-trial-aztec-human-sacrifice-and-speedy-gene-construction

NIH pulls the plug on controversial alcohol trial

The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, last week killed a controversial clinical study that was already on life support: the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health trial. A working group assembled to review the study found that senior officials at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism actively and secretively courted the alcohol industry to fund the $100 million project, and saw to it that a favored principal investigator won the funding.