Maxwell W Layard

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Maxwell William Layard (usually called Max - but with various spellings of his surname) was a science-for-sale entrepreneur with his own one-man consulting company, Layard Associates. He worked extensively with Maurice LeVois. He was known to "depend upon the tobacco industry for most of his income".[2]

A biography in the tobacco archives says:

Dr. Maxwell William Layard. Dr. Layard is a partner in Layard Associates, a firm of consulting statisticians in California. He has been in that position since 1989. Prior to that time Dr. Layard was at various periods, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California. Davis, a statistician employed by the National Cancer Institute, a Biostatistician at the U.S. Veterans Administration and a manager of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Failure Analysis Associates in California. [3]

The most interesting thing about Layard is that he may actually have had an animal house and laboratory, and actually performed some experiments himself. Most of his associates didn't bother.

Documents & Timeline

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California. Davis,
• statistician employed by the National Cancer Institute
• Biostatistician at the U.S. Veterans Administration
• manager of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Failure Analysis Associates in California.

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1989 Setting up Layard Associates,

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1990 Oct 11 The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) is holding hearings on the banning of smoking on interstate buses. These are the Tobacco Institute submissions: Critical comments were filed by

• Salvatore R. DiNardi, Ph.D., PHRA Incorporated;
• Joseph L. Fleiss, Ph.D., of Columbia University School of Public Health and Alan J. Gross, Ph.D., of Medical University of South Carolina;
• Howard Goodfellow, Ph.D., and Susan Eyre, MHSc., of Goodfellow Consultants, Inc.;
• Dr Gio B. Gori, Director, Health Policy Center;
• Alan J. Gross, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina;
• Larry C. Holcomb, Ph.D., Vice President, Holcomb Environmental Services;
• Ronald D. Hood, Ph.D., University of Alabama,
• Raphael J. Witorsch, Ph.D., (aka 'Ray') Medical College of Virginia, and Philip Witorsch, M.D., George Washington Unversity Medical Center;
• Alan W. Katzenstein, Katzenstein Associates; (actually a full time contractor to the Tobacco Institute)
• Dr. S. James Kilpatrick, Medical College of Virginia;
• Peter N Lee, M.A., Director, P.N. Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd.;
• Maurice E. LeVois, Ph.D., Environmental Health Resources, and Maxwell W. Layard, Ph.D., Layard Associates;
• Ted A. Loomis, M.D., Ph.D., Drill, Freiss, Hays, Loomis & Shaffer, Inc.;
• Joe Pedelty, M.Sc, Holcomb Environmental Services;
• Mark J. Reasor, Ph.D., West Virginia University and James A. Will, D.V.M., Ph.D.;
• Jarnail Singh, Ph.D., Stillman College;
• Paul Switzer, Ph.D., Stanford University;
• John A. Todhunter, Ph.D., FAIC, DABT, Science Regulatory Services International; (fired from EPA)
• David A. Weeks, M.D.; (Boise Idaho physician and life-long lobbyist for tobacco)
• Lawrence M. Wexler, Ph.D., New York Medical College;
• Joseph M. Wu, Ph.D., New York Medical College. [4]

[Every one on this list was a life-long tobacco shill.]

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1992 Feb 12 In-house lawyer, Mary Ward, of RJ Reynolds has written to the ETS Executive Committee. Covington & Burling's (C&B) staff lawyer, Melinda Sidak, has provided the companies with an outline of the ASHRAE activities and they are trying to load up the IAQ standards committees with their lobbyists.

(Max) Layard, (Maurice) LeVois, (Alan J) Gross, and possibly (Philip) Witorsch will apply for membership [5]

[ASHRAE = the American Society of Heating Refrigeration & Air-conditioning Engineers -- which effectively set worldwide standard -- and was therefore a primary target for tobacco influence.]

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1993 Aug 9: The Issues Manager at the Tobacco Institute, Susan Stuntz is billing Philip Morris for the reimbursement of $35,214 for the services of: Dr. Philip Witorsch, Dr. Gio Gori and Dr. Maxwell Layard.

[Witorsch runs the IAPAG group at Georgetown University, and Gori is a disgraced NCI scientist who has his own Health Policy Center.

• The invoices from Dr. Gori and Dr. Layard are for work related to their appearance at the news conference announcing the industry's lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency.
• The second Gori invoice ($6,000) is for a letter to the Wall Street Journal.
• The invoice from Dr. Witorsch is for the ETS briefing he participated in at Philip Morris's request for representatives of several of its advertising agencies. [6]

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1993 Oct 20: Tobacco lawyers Covington & Burling have approached Max Layard to estimate a budget ($20,000) for a quick paper on dose-response data in ETS and lung-cancer. The Tobacco Institute is being asked to pay it. [7]

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1998 Aug 11 The Working Draft (Confidential) of a lawyer's list of tobacco industry helpers -- under the title: Expert / Consultant Submissions Regarding ETS to Regulatory Agencies on Behalf of Philip Morris

Maxwell S Layard of Layard Associates is one of the hundreds listed as having given evidence for the Tobacco Institute at various hearings, etc. [8]