Article ID: CBB797356298

The Commercialization of the Biomedical Sciences: (Mis)understanding Bias (2019)

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The growing commercialization of scientific research has raised important concerns about industry bias. According to some evidence, so-called industry bias can affect the integrity of the science as well as the direction of the research agenda. I argue that conceptualizing industry’s influence in scientific research in terms of bias is unhelpful. Insofar as industry sponsorship negatively affects the integrity of the research, it does so through biasing mechanisms that can affect any research independently of the source of funding. Talk about industry bias thus offers no insight into the particular epistemic shortcomings at stake. If the concern is with the negative effects that industry funding can have on the research agenda, conceptualizing this influence as bias obscures the ways in which such impact is problematic and limits our ability to offer solutions that can successfully address the concerns raised by the growing role of private funding in science.

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Authors & Contributors
Borghini, Andrea
Rijcke, Sarah de
Robinson, Mark Dennis
Madeleine Pape
Jukola, Saana
Riccardo Mona
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy of science
Biomedicine
Funding and finance
Commercialization
Bias
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
New Zealand
India
Great Britain
Institutions
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
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