At 02:02 PM 04/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The organic industry should be tracking the sources of funding for these
>right wing and corporate front group and making that the focus. They
>should be exposing the percentage of corporately funded research projects
>that yield "favorable" results compared to nonbiased research studies.
Just thought this group might like to know that we had on campus last week
Jennifer Washburn, the co-author of The Atlantic Monthly article titled "The
Kept University" (available at
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/03/press.htm).
She said 98 percent of industry-funded studies reflect positively on the
product being researched. That figure for non-industry-funded studies is 79
percent.
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