The Sound Of Settled Science

Survey: 1 in 5 medical researchers reports pressure from funders to change study results

Because of what the researchers describe as a history of interference from industry funders, such as drug companies in public health research, they expected those leading industry-funded studies to report the most attempted influence, they said.

“But we didn’t find any instances of that,” study co-author Sam McCrabb said in a press release.

Instead, more respondents reported receiving pressure from government funders seeking to influence research findings than from industry, non-profit funders or public funders,

Shocker.

16 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. And the Ministry of Truth has just announced that, due to increased workload, it’s adding another wing to its headquarters complex.

  2. So, the studies are altered for both power and profit.
    Profit I can deal with, power, on the other hand, means the power of the state to coerce people.

  3. How the government does research: “This is the result we want. You (Scientist) shall make it so.”
    If you have ever bunted heads with the government where the government relied on its “scientists” you will know that is how they do it.

  4. Funding bodies generally don’t like paying for research that might produce negative results or disprove the concepts which they financed.

    1. Heh. Capitalism crossed with Lysenkoism.
      Way back in the day, we called it “fraud.”

      1. On top of that, produce too many negative results (however true they may be), and the funding dries up as does one’s prospects for tenure and a seat at the golden hog trough.

  5. I think this Covid shit show is ending very shortly and our buddy Dougie Ford is doing the ‘we’re innocent and following our experts and even all our members were duped into being vaccinated.’ Hence the run for cover now in having all members vaccinated would cover liability issues.

  6. In 1956 Eisenhower famously identified and warned against the military-industrial complex. But he also warned against gubmint-funded scientific research.

  7. the sound of settle science

    or

    the PRICE of settle science?

    bribes and gifts can buy you any science you want…

  8. A private enterprise could lose its shirt if it relied on bogus cheated resuklts. Governments, howevere, have no such problem and all government research is political, not scientific or commercial. By definition.

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