Do Financial Conflicts of Interest Bias Research? An Inquiry into the “Funding Effect” Hypothesis
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...In his reviews of these studies, Krimsky [2013] concludes that “[i]ndustry-sponsored trials are more likely than trials sponsored by non-profit organisations, including government agencies, to yield results that are consistent with the sponsor’s commercial interest” [Krimsky 2013: 582]....
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...competitive funding than by block funding (Krimsky, 2012)....
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...Therefore, the effects of different statuses, associated with different levels of research constraints, will be observed more clearly and strongly when the research is supported by competitive funding than by block funding (Krimsky, 2012)....
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...…on the psychological, economic, and social aspects of scientific research, we propose that at least five factors are particularly relevant when assessing the impact of financial relationships on research (Greenberg, 2001; Resnik, 2007; Elliott, 2011; Krimsky, 2012; Lexchin, 2012) (see Table 2)....
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...…a method, data collection, data analysis, or interpretation of results that, in the consensus view of scientists of a discipline, tends to yield results that distort the truth of a hypothesis under consideration, diminishing or negating the reliability of the knowledge claim” (Krimsky, 2012, p. 3)....
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...Some argue that disclosure policies are little more than a Band-Aid that covers up larger problems because they do nothing to discourage problematic relationships that create bias (Krimsky, 2003; Elliott, 2008; Cosgrove and Krimsky, 2012)....
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...A company could also decide not to fund a study based on preliminary evidence of lack of effectiveness (Krimsky, 2012)....
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...Financial relationships can influence research outcomes in a variety of ways (Resnik, 2007; Michaels, 2008; Elliott, 2011; Lexchin, 2012; Krimsky, 2012) (see Table 1)....
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...Strong and consistent evidence shows that industry sponsored-research tends to draw proindustry conclusions’’ (Bekelman, Li, and Gross 2003, 463)....
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