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Scientific Research
Has scientific research shifted from the pursuit of knowledge into a tool for corporate profit? New studies show that as private dollars get mixed into research practices, more results are falsified. What can be done in order to make scientific research the trusted institution that it once was?
Conflict of Interest
McDonald's sponsoring a study on the effects of soft drinks and junk food? Dow Industries promoting research on government regulation of chemical companies? Seems ridiculous, but cash-starved scientific institutions are climbing into bed with the companies their research would normally condemn, and sometimes are even changing their findings. After all, you wouldn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth...
Key Issues
Even Reason magazine, the bastion of free market enterprise, agrees that when scientific research is coupled with corporate agendas, the results can be skewed against the public.
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In order to swing public debate over the danger of chemicals, the pollution of the oil industries, and the health effects of fatty foods, companies have created their own research non-profits.
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To what extent should universities be beholden to corporate interests? New evidence shows that research has been altered in order to further profit.
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Recent Fraud Cases and Allegations
New scientific fraud cases emerge regularly in the news. But sorting out the facts can be difficult amid charges and denials.
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Bell Labs researcher's work is retracted by journals, but remains on web |
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