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Part of being a good scientific study is having unbiased experimental scientists run the study with no conflicts of interest. The pressure on that team will be

• tremon 5y ago
  No, part of being a good scientific study is being upfront about any (even potential) conflicts of interest. Most studies aren't interest-free, do you think e.g. CERN doesn't have a vested interest when it publishes studies about the LHC experiments?
  • gentleman11 5y ago
    There have been a lot of scandals in the news lately about low quality research due to these conflicts of interest in the past https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074... https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...