{"id":1804,"date":"2008-12-15T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2008-12-19T19:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:08:27","slug":"independent-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/12\/independent-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(08)61825-5\/fulltext\">The Lancet of Dec 6, 2008 <\/a>shows an excellent example of independent science (and in particular public health research) and gives an account why this is necessary although I agree  with the author<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am sure that Coca-Cola will find other universities eager to pluck the low-hanging fruit of industry-sponsored research. If my experience is anything to go by, not much plucking will be necessary. A research proposal will be written for them and a research grant will be plopped into the open mouths of their university&#8217;s finance department while their academic egos are stroked by the company&#8217;s scientists. What a sad abuse of the rare freedom granted to publicly funded academics to seek answers to socially important questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what a nice coincidence with a paper in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/v14\/n10\/full\/nm1008-1014.html\">Nature Medicine about the commercialism of academic research<\/a> plus some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/08\/09\/fulchester-graduates\/\">earlier posts here<\/a>, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet of Dec 6, 2008 shows an excellent example of independent science (and in particular public health research) and gives an account why this is necessary although I agree with the author &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2312,2311],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-independent-science","tag-public-health-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}