[kashunstva]

> 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.