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Originally posted by Adam Campbell:
I'd also say that if the researcher is ethical, which is likely (not many get into research for the money, but for more important reasons), the funding has no relevance on its outcome. Whether people like or not, corporations are one of the best sources of funding these days. I say spend as much of their money as you can.
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True enough, but there's a reason why more and more journals are requiring, as a mandatory requirement of publication, the disclosure of funding at the end of a study. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with the ethics of the researcher. But the ethics of corporate funding in university research is pretty far off the topic of this thread. =)