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by astrange 1015 days ago
This is a frequent midbrow complaint, but it doesn't matter who funds studies as long as they're correctly constructed.

Especially because otherwise you won't get the studies because nobody else cares.

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> This is a frequent midbrow complaint…

I’ve never really thought of attention to conflict of interest in terms of high, low and midbrow culture. Whether the study is well-executed or not, I want to know what the funding mechanisms are because there is a history of commercial funders inserting themselves in various aspects of study design and reporting. I won’t discount a study solely on the basis of the outcomes’ favourability to the funder, but it’s an evaluative data point.