Scientific Secrecy and 'Spin': The Sad, Sleazy Saga of the Trials of Remune

Q2 Social Sciences

Law and Contemporary Problems Pub Date : 2006-10-19 DOI:10.2139/SSRN.692042

S. Haack

引用次数: 9

Abstract

A drug company funds a large-scale clinical trial of a new AIDS therapy; when the results are unfavorable, the company tries to prevent their being published; when the researchers go ahead with publication anyway; the company seeks millions of dollars in damages. Of course, viewed more closely, things are more complicated than they seem at first. The author sketches an account of what science is and does that suggests how and why the ways in which scientific work is funded can distort or even block its progress, and concludes with some thoughts about industrial sponsorship of scientific research in the universities.

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科学秘密和“谎言”:关于报酬试验的悲伤、肮脏的传奇

一家制药公司资助了一种新的艾滋病治疗的大规模临床试验;当结果是不利的，公司试图阻止他们公布;当研究人员继续发表论文时;该公司要求赔偿数百万美元的损失。当然，更仔细地观察，事情比乍看起来要复杂得多。作者概述了科学是什么，科学做什么，并提出了科学工作的资助方式如何以及为什么会扭曲甚至阻碍其进展，并总结了一些关于工业赞助大学科学研究的想法。

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Law and Contemporary Problems Social Sciences-Law

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