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7:30pm
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Engines of Knowledge or Merchants of Doubt: Can We Trust Industry-Funded Research?
(Conferences / Seminars / Lectures)
Kevin Elliott
Michigan State University
http://lymanbriggs.msu.edu/faculty/bios/user.cfm?UserID=121
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. more information...
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