Sponsors 'manipulate' scientists (from BBC news.)

Let me get this straight. A SURVEY SUGGESTS that some researchers MAY be under pressure to modify their findings.

Yeah, that's newsworthy.

Not ripping on you or your post, Orangutan. It's just that one of my biggest pet peeves is when a survey of questionable veracity gets reported as news. The problem is, it is very easy in some peoples' minds to equate news with facts.

Oh, and by the way, if this is going to turn into a Bush conspiracy thread, I'll just tune out right now.
 
I can't believe that President Bush is using the BBC to pressure scientists like that.
 
Loon said:
I can't believe that President Bush is using the BBC to pressure scientists like that.
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The guy's a maniac, something's gotta be done about Bush.
 
from the BBC article
More than 10% of scientists have been asked by their commercial backer to tailor their research conclusions to meet the sponsor's requirements, according to the survey of university and government laboratories.
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Surely (if the numbers are true) this is not at all surprising. I generally take the results of commercially sponsored research with a grain of salt anyway.
 
Red Siegfried said:
Not ripping on you or your post, Orangutan. It's just that one of my biggest pet peeves is when a survey of questionable veracity gets reported as news. [/B]
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You are absolutly right. In fact it's amusing how the Survey's sponsors. Two Scientist unions use the reults to call for:

"properly financed, and for an end to fixed-term contracts for scientists"

I wonder if they put presure on to effect the results of the survey.

"No, no, don't ask if you had ever changed the results, ask if you had ever felt presure to change results." ;).

O.
 
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