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From: "Karleen Gribble" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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