http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/08/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/08/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-11374 Carolyn Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:34:07 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/08/20/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/#comment-11374 I am disturbed by how this is being reported and discussed. Is there something actually wrong with how this study is conducted? Or is it somehow "unethical" even to conduct such a study? This just seems like a case of "guilt by association" and of judging the outcome by whether you like the results or not. If CSPI did a similar study and found that industry-sponsorship affected the reporting of weight loss trials, would you be similarly skeptical, since CSPI benefits financially from making various sensationalistic claims? How about some scientific critique instead of just "oh I don't like these results so they must be no good and even unethical." I am disturbed by how this is being reported and discussed. Is there something actually wrong with how this study is conducted? Or is it somehow “unethical” even to conduct such a study? This just seems like a case of “guilt by association” and of judging the outcome by whether you like the results or not. If CSPI did a similar study and found that industry-sponsorship affected the reporting of weight loss trials, would you be similarly skeptical, since CSPI benefits financially from making various sensationalistic claims? How about some scientific critique instead of just “oh I don’t like these results so they must be no good and even unethical.”

]]> http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/08/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-11373 Sheila Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:09:45 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/08/20/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/#comment-11373 Perhaps ethical approval is not required, but boy wouldn't it be nice? Or, if not ethical approval, how about just good old fashioned ethical behavior? What happened to just doing the right thing because it was the right thing, regardless of whether there was somebody else around to give approval? Perhaps ethical approval is not required, but boy wouldn’t it be nice? Or, if not ethical approval, how about just good old fashioned ethical behavior? What happened to just doing the right thing because it was the right thing, regardless of whether there was somebody else around to give approval?

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