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----- Original Message -----
From: "Karleen Gribble" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 1:22 AM
Subject: [LACTNET] research funding
What do others think?? Any others feel similarly? What do JHL and other
breastfeeding journals gain from publishing research funded by the baby food
industries? Am I missing something?
**Karleen, I fully agree with you. Just this Saturday, there was an article
in a national newspaper about how more and more professors are paid by third
parties, sometimes foundations, sometimes commercial companies. Some say it
is inevitable, because government does not take up a large enough amount of
money in the educational budgets (research at univeristies), others think it
is a bad thing that 'science' is paid by companies. There was an example
given about someone who got his promotion by saying milk is a very healthy
product for all people; he was a manager of a dairy company... :-s
I really don't know what I can do about things like this... Would not even
have a clue as to how I could find out about all of this... But it's pretty
clear to me that a company funding research does not like outcomes that
advice against their product, whatever product it may be (services,
materials, processes, foods, name it). It probably highly depends on the
integrity and intellectual capacity of the editors.
Flawing research is a hard thing to do, I suppose... I'm working on an
article/statement that relates to research I would dearly like to get
flawed. It's a tough cookie...
Warmly,
Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands
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