People Don’t Trust Research Sponsored by Corporations

[shanethebrain]

CocaCola sponsoring research on soda as part of your diet

The Sugar Industry blaming fats not sugar

Big tobacco says tobacco is good for your health

 

Any more examples?

 

Turns out people are far more skeptical about research sponsored by corporations.

 

https://www.quarkish.com/2017/05/08/people-dont-trust-research-sponsored-by-corporations/

 

Link

Study done by Michigan State

Edited May 10, 2017 by shanethebrain

[CharonY]

That is not surprising, is it? The good news is that is a rule to indicate sources of funding and affiliations (as well as conflict of interest) in publication. The issue is if the authors hide those links.

[shanethebrain]

I guess i'd be interested in finding ways to have corporate sponsored research be more readily accepted. Sort of like a code of conduct that has to be followed for sponsored researched.

[CharonY]

There are code of conducts, but with sufficient incentives people break it (regardless of being corporate or not). But even if they do follow it, there is no good reason to immediately accept the conclusions of individual studies. Passing peer-review is the low bar.

The real test for studies in general is independent validation.

[HB of CJ]

If somebody pays for it, then it is tainted. How this would be corrected in pure research is a good question.