How are Republicans attempting to squash scientific facts that challenge their own agendas? By funding and generating alternate research that backs up their claims instead. More than a dozen conservative senators are currently calling for an end to disclosure rules so that biased scientific studies can be presented as fact without having to acknowledge who paid for the research, writes The Daily Beast.
Remarkably, the existing disclosure regulations are tame. The government allows corporate-funded science to be discussed, even in the context of debates that would directly impact these specific corporations. The one caveat is that when this research is shared, the presenters must disclose how the research was funded in order to divulge conflicts of interest.
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The Republican Plan To Invalidate Scientific Research Sunday, 30 March 2014 10:58 By Kevin Mathews, Care2 | News Analysis
I don't know why the mainstream media doesn't get this, but "scientific" studies that are funded by one side of an issue or the other are always tainted. There are plenty of folks whose income is vested in the outcome of such studies. IMHO, they aren't even worth reporting on.
pecunia non olet any longer???