Healthy Skepticism Library item: 559
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Publication type: Journal Article
Heagerty AM.
Industry-sponsored research.
Lancet 1997 Mar 1; 349:(9052):588
Keywords:
*analysis
relationship between researchers, academic institutions and industry
academic freedom
drug company sponsored research
SPONSORSHIP: RESEARCH
Notes:
Carefully nutured universities and sponsors may develop a successful symbiotic relation but the loss of open exchanges of information between fellow researchers in a field must be resisted. If not, commercial considerations may change the direction of academic research in ways for which the price is too high.