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A soda company sponsoring nutrition research. An oil conglomerate helping fund a climate-related research meeting. Does the public care who's paying for science?
In a word, yes. When industry funds science, credibility suffers. And this does not bode well for the types of public-private research partnerships that appear to be becoming more prevalent as government funding for research and development lags.
The recurring topic of conflict of interest has made headlines in recent weeks. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine has revised its conflict of interest guidelines following questions about whether members of a recent expert panel on GMOs had industry ties or other financial conflicts that were not disclosed in the panel's final report.
Our own recent research speaks to how hard it may be for the public to see research as useful when produced with an industry partner, even when that company is just one of several collaborators.
The study found that participants distrusted any research coming from companies, even when produced by a diverse array of companies or in partnership with the government or non-corporate parties. Is this a real threat to science, as government funding of research declines?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday May 08 2017, @08:59PM (2 children)
Fool me once, Fuck you.
Fool me twice, Fuck you, me and the horse I rode in on, but fuck you... I've stopped believing you and stopped buying your product, probably.
Same with the government
Fuck you Trudeau. Harper. Chretien. Trudeau, Microsoft, etc.
And fuck you, horse I rode in on... Now my ass is killing me.
Yes, I'm done. Fuck me....
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Tuesday May 09 2017, @06:38AM (1 child)
Just to complete your rant, "fuck you, fuck me, the horse [you] rode in on, and the band of men [you] rode in with." :-)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 09 2017, @02:01PM
But we in it shall be fucked-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so fucked,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves fuck'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fucked with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---