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SUMMARY:Engines of Knowledge or Merchants of Doubt: Can We Trust Industry-Funded Research?
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 Kevin Elliott\n
 Michigan State University\n
 http://lymanbriggs.msu.edu/faculty/bios/user.cfm?UserID=121 
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 Private industry now pays for 
 about two-thirds of scientific research and development 
 in the US, but there have been notable 
 cases in which industry-funded research 
 has been manipulated and designed to produce 
 misleading results that harm the public. Prominent 
 examples include tobacco-industry studies 
 developed to exonerate cigarettes and second-hand 
 smoke, pharmaceutical research strategically 
 designed to assist with marketing, and 
 fossil-fuel industry efforts to challenge research 
 on climate change. This talk will explore 
 these worries about industry-funded research, 
 examine the conditions under which research 
 tends to be inappropriately influenced, 
 and offer some suggestions for promoting research 
 that can be widely trusted.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Lyman Briggs College\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lbc.msu.edu/\n
 Contact email: lbcnews@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://lbc.msu.edu/SpeakerSeries/\n
LOCATION:C-106 Holmes Hall
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