30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific Research
For over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos, but far less attention is paid today to the various corporate and special interest groups who, through funding and lobbying efforts, have been able to shape the modern academic and scientific landscape to fit their agenda.
In Conflicts of Interest Within Science, author Sheldon Krimsky compiles 21 peer-reviewed, academic articles that examine the complex relationship between the individual scientists conducting research and the groups who fund them. Ultimately, Krimsky's call to action concerns a collective movement among authors, peer reviewers, corporations and journal editors to disclose the sources of their funding. By holding scientists and the groups that fund them more accountable through increased transparency, we as a society can begin to rebuild trust in the integrity of knowledge.
- ISBN10 1510736530
- ISBN13 9781510736535
- Publish Date 29 January 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
- Imprint Hot Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 400
- Language English