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Researchers examined 36 industry-sponsored articles between 1986 and 2017, more than half of which were medically related (pharmaceuticals, medical devices or diagnostic testing). It examined four papers on tobacco, three on the food industry, three on plant or animal biotechnology, and others relating to the alcohol, chemical, or mining industries.
“They use the same strategies,” the lead author, Alice Fabbri, told Guardian Australia. “They fund research that can be used to promote their products or distract from the harms of their products, or to drive the research away from policies that will tend to harm them.”
The study found corporate sponsorship tends to divert researchers’ attention towards “products or activities that can be commercialised”.
This risked warping government policy by limiting the evidence available to government, it found.
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https://www.theguardian.com/austral...storts-public-policy-report-finds?CMP=soc_567
With issues like the LNP overhauling the CSIRO to force them to get more money from industry, independent science seems to have been heading the way of the dodo for a long time now.
This article talks about the problems with the trend, and some fixes, like Italy taking 5% of pharm companies marketing money to put into an independent research fund.
"University of Sydney researcher Juan Rey-López recently co-authored a study of Coca-Cola’s research sponsorship in Spain. He said his findings should serve as a lesson to Australia.
The study found Coca-Cola had sponsored 20 scientific papers, and the conclusions of 14 aligned with the company’s marketing strategies."
Researchers examined 36 industry-sponsored articles between 1986 and 2017, more than half of which were medically related (pharmaceuticals, medical devices or diagnostic testing). It examined four papers on tobacco, three on the food industry, three on plant or animal biotechnology, and others relating to the alcohol, chemical, or mining industries.
“They use the same strategies,” the lead author, Alice Fabbri, told Guardian Australia. “They fund research that can be used to promote their products or distract from the harms of their products, or to drive the research away from policies that will tend to harm them.”
The study found corporate sponsorship tends to divert researchers’ attention towards “products or activities that can be commercialised”.
This risked warping government policy by limiting the evidence available to government, it found.
"
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...storts-public-policy-report-finds?CMP=soc_567
With issues like the LNP overhauling the CSIRO to force them to get more money from industry, independent science seems to have been heading the way of the dodo for a long time now.
This article talks about the problems with the trend, and some fixes, like Italy taking 5% of pharm companies marketing money to put into an independent research fund.
"University of Sydney researcher Juan Rey-López recently co-authored a study of Coca-Cola’s research sponsorship in Spain. He said his findings should serve as a lesson to Australia.
The study found Coca-Cola had sponsored 20 scientific papers, and the conclusions of 14 aligned with the company’s marketing strategies."
