Myron Weinberg

Myron weinberg

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Myron Weinberg, founder of the Weinberg Group was a former senior executive at Booz, Allen and Hamilton where he headed biological, chemical, environmental, and regulatory activities. . According to the Weinberg Group website Myron's major achievements include:

1 The conceptualization and development of the use for baking soda in the refrigerator;

2) A major study for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, which led to the passage of a new law by the Congress of the United States;

3) The current revitalization of thalidomide;

4) Approval of the first total joint replacement; and

5) The development of a key clause in the Amsterdam Treaty of the European Union..

According to the business networking website LinkedIn Myron Weinberg is the chair of the Creative Science Corporation although a web search returned no results for this company.

Myron Weinberg is described as a tobacco industry consultant in a thesis paper produced by Elisa Ong of the University of California San Francisco titled "Tobacco Industry Efforts Subverting the International Agency for Research on Cancer's Secondhand Smoke Study.". Myron Weinberg is also listed in a Philip Morris grants and projects budget as being paid $50,000 in 1995 alone for "Consulting Related to ETS [Environmental Tobacco Smoke] Projects." .

Career History

• Former Senior Vice President at Booz Allen and Hamilton
• Associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School in Washington,D.C.
• Associate professorDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

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