PubMed — a powerful taxpayer-funded search engine for medical study abstracts that doctors, patients, and the media rely on — just started displaying conflict of interest data up front. New information about funding sources and potential conflicts will now appear right below study abstracts, which means readers don't have even to open a journal article to be made aware of any possible industry influence over studies.
[...] The change comes a year after 62 scientists and physicians from around the world (including the head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest) lobbied for the update, part of a broader transparency movement in science.
http://www.vox.com/2017/4/19/15350048/pubmed-publishing-conflicts-of-interest-funding-information
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @12:56AM
Self-funded, self-published research is flourishing. According to a November 2010 story:
In March, YouTube announced that 24 hours of video was uploaded to [the] video service every minute. Now it's 35 hours per minute [...]
-- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-more-than-50000-hours-of-video-per-day-uploaded/ [cbsnews.com]
A December 2016 story said:
On Google’s YouTube video platform, people upload 400 hours of video every minute, the company said.
-- http://www.voanews.com/a/mht-google-says-will-use-100-percent-renewable-energy/3625221.html [voanews.com]