Not exact matches
For example, the
scientists involved
in the systematic reviews that reported having no
conflict of interest may have had preexisting prejudices that affected their interpretation
of their findings.
Conflicts of interest are just one
of the challenges that academic
scientists face
in cultivating productive relationships with industry.
Further,
in an attempt to make the agency more credible and independent, the law aims to limit the number
of scientists with financial
conflicts of interest who can serve on FDA advisory panels.
The two representatives refer to a controversy over the use
of CT scans to detect lung cancer
in which
scientists on both sides
of a debate about the usefulness
of this technology were accused
of having
conflicts of interest.
Early
in the game
of creating a company, says Perls, perhaps the most important player with which an academic
scientist should communicate is the institutional
conflict -
of -
interest panel, whose job is to assure that financial stakes with a commercial entity don't bias research results or compromise the safety
of human subjects.
These might include information about your own availability, related work being reviewed at other journals (from your lab or other labs), or the names
of other
scientists who are working on the same problem and so would have a
conflict of interest in reviewing your paper.
It has become a way
of glossing over irresolvable
conflict between groups with some
interests in common, such as taxpayers (who want to save money),
scientists (who want to spend it on exciting projects) and people with disabilities (who hope public funds will improve the quality
of their life).
Finally, Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political
scientist and specialist
in the intersection
of climate and disasters at the University
of Colorado, Boulder, has been deeply critical
of the climate panel for years, contending that it misrepresented work he co-authored and is mired
in conflicts of interest.
What
conflict of interest can possibly arise if a
scientist simply conducts his research and experiments driven by his own curiosity and ability, and then reports his results
in a paper submitted to a scientific journal?
The
conflict here may be mostly the result
of some very wealthy business
interests who have a hidden agenda on this issue, and they are known to be spending a lot
of money to confuse this issue
in any way they can, often by involving a small number
of otherwise fine
scientists and others to spread doubt on their behalf.
So while climate
scientists and gatekeepers
in state funding streams are inherently suspect — having this
conflict of interest — those
in physics are not.
(Dr Pilkey went on to write a global warming book
in 2011
in which there is no mistaking his enslavement to Naomi Oreskes» repetition
of the «reposition global warming» phrase while apparently being unaware that Oreskes is enslaved to Ross Gelbspan for that phrase as an indictment
of skeptic climate
scientists» «
conflicts of interest guilt.»)
First, a vintage explanation
of what was an early effort to tie the medical science aspect
of the situation to physical science, from the Center for Science
in the Public
Interest (CSPI) Press Release «
Scientists Call on Journals to Disclose Authors»
Conflicts of Interest», February 4, 2002:
Conflicts of interest are particularly hard
in climate because it involves buying
in the notion that governmental regulation based on climate
scientists» findings will somehow harm fossil fuel companies and the companies are somehow afraid
of it.
So, all those
scientists serving on Boards of green advocacy groups [Climate Scientists Joining Green Advocacy Groups] who publish in Science on any environmental or climate change topic should be declaring a conflict of
scientists serving on Boards
of green advocacy groups [Climate
Scientists Joining Green Advocacy Groups] who publish in Science on any environmental or climate change topic should be declaring a conflict of
Scientists Joining Green Advocacy Groups] who publish
in Science on any environmental or climate change topic should be declaring a
conflict of interest.
It is being attended by some
of the world's foremost climate
scientists, as well as experts
in policy formulation and
conflict resolution, and some laymen and women with an
interest in climate science, including yours truly — me!