Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Academic Cheating
- Part II Academic Excuses and Fairness
- Part III Authorship and Credit
- Part IV Confidentiality’s Limits
- Part V Data Analysis, Reporting, and Sharing
- Part VI Designing Research
- Part VII Fabricating Data
- Part VIII Human Subjects
- Part IX Personnel Decisions
- Part X Reviewing and Editing
- Part XI Science for Hire and Conflict of Interest
- 63 The Power of Industry (Money) in Influencing Science
- 64 The Impact of Personal Expectations and Biases in Preparing Expert Testimony
- 65 The Fragility of Truth in Expert Testimony
- 66 A Surprising Request from a Grant Monitor
- 67 Whoever Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
- 68 How to Protect Scientific Integrity under Social and Political Pressure
- 69 Commentary to Part XI
- Epilogue Why Is Ethical Behavior Challenging?
- Index
- References
67 - Whoever Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
A Case of Documenting Funding Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Academic Cheating
- Part II Academic Excuses and Fairness
- Part III Authorship and Credit
- Part IV Confidentiality’s Limits
- Part V Data Analysis, Reporting, and Sharing
- Part VI Designing Research
- Part VII Fabricating Data
- Part VIII Human Subjects
- Part IX Personnel Decisions
- Part X Reviewing and Editing
- Part XI Science for Hire and Conflict of Interest
- 63 The Power of Industry (Money) in Influencing Science
- 64 The Impact of Personal Expectations and Biases in Preparing Expert Testimony
- 65 The Fragility of Truth in Expert Testimony
- 66 A Surprising Request from a Grant Monitor
- 67 Whoever Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
- 68 How to Protect Scientific Integrity under Social and Political Pressure
- 69 Commentary to Part XI
- Epilogue Why Is Ethical Behavior Challenging?
- Index
- References
Summary
The integrity of science requires transparency and freedom from interests other than the search for knowledge. A challenge to insulating the scientific enterprise from external influence is that the source of research funding tends to correlate with a study’s findings and authors’ interpretations of their findings. This “funding effect” (Krimsky, 2013) has been well documented, with a focus on the influence of for-profit/industry funders. Yet in psychological science, a comparable threat comes from ideological interests. This case study captures the potential influence of the ideological funding effect on psychological science.
The Ethical Challenge
Several years ago I was asked to serve as action editor for a journal article that reviewed and integrated several research areas. The authors’ interpretation of the evidence and its implications for public policy was quite controversial. The reviewers took issue with several of the authors’ interpretations, and in a revision, the authors addressed my concerns and those of the reviewers. Because there were several relatively minor issues that needed to be addressed in a second revision, I accepted the manuscript for publication pending these minor changes, but with the caveat that after accepting the final version, I would invite a commentary.
The final version of the manuscript was satisfactory. Howerver, I noticed that this version included an acknowledgment of a source of funding that had not appeared in previous versions.
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- Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain SciencesCase Studies and Commentaries, pp. 208 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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