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Re:For Some, Scientists Aren't the Authority on Science by tzs on Monday November 28, 2016 @07:08PM (#13059554)
> It is amazing to me that the same people that dismiss "tobacco" or "soda industry" science/scientists have no problem accepting "government" science at face value.

When a scientist working at a lab in a tobacco company gets a result that puts tobacco in a bad light, the result likely won't get published.

When a scientist working at an academic lab gets government funding, and gets a result the government doesn't like, the result likely will get published.

That's a huge difference.

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Re:For Some, Scientists Aren't the Authority on Science by belovedeagle on Monday November 28, 2016 @09:06PM (#13060126)
Do you have any evidence supporting this claim?
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Re:For Some, Scientists Aren't the Authority on Science by tzs on Monday November 28, 2016 @11:24PM (#13060772)
The notable lack of very many papers from tobacco company labs reporting results that go against the interests of the company that owns the lab, and the large number of papers from academic scientists whose results are against the interests of the governments that funded them.
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Re:For Some, Scientists Aren't the Authority on Science by belovedeagle on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:53AM (#13061368)
Do you have examples of goverment-negative papers? Do you have data to back up the other claim? I don't think you've grasped the concept of "evidence" here.
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