Agency for Research on Cancer. Some donations, including a £50,000 gift from asbestos company Turner and Newall, were given in a public ceremony to Green College, Oxford, but most fees and payments remained undisclosed to the public, Oxford University and colleagues until his death. His defenders point out that his connections to industry were widely known by those in the field, that he did his work before formal disclosure of commercial interests became commonplace and that on occasion, he came to conclusions that were unpalatable to the companies who consulted him. His own view, as reported by Richard Peto – who criticised the allegations, claiming they originated with people aiming to damage Doll's reputation – was that it was necessary to co-operate with companies for access to data which could prove their products to be dangerous. Peto said also that Doll gave all his fees from such work to Green College, Oxford, which he had founded. Some controversy arose over the fact that he did not publish a paper on 'A tentative estimate of the leukaemogenic effects of test thermonuclear explosions' in the Journal of Radiation Protection in 1955 which stated that 'there is no threshold [radiation] dose below which no effect is produced' in humans. He withdrew it on advice from Sir Harold Himsworth, Secretary of the MRC (Medical Research Council), who in turn was advised by the Atomic Energy Authority not to publish because it would be contrary to their interests. It was only published in 1996 when this kind of view was more acceptable view to the nuclear industry. See also Health effects of tobacco Lennox Johnston References Further reading Gayle Greene (1999) The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation University of Michigan Press External links Richard Doll, An Epidemiologist Gone Awry Richard Doll Building by Nicholas Hare Architects LLP BBC News obituary Sir Richard Doll: A life's research BBC Experts Examined – Sir Richard Doll The Times obituary Associated Press obituary The Independent obituary Godfather of Anti-smoking Movement Dies At 92 Interview with Richard Doll Richard Horton in The New York Review of Books The Guardian (Sarah Boseley) Company paid for published review The Guardian (Sarah Boseley) Intervention in Vietnam inquiry An Epidemiologist at Work: The Personal Papers of Sir Richard Doll Royal Society nomination 1912 births 2005 deaths People educated at Gibbs School People educated at Westminster School, London