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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by jgalt212 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:28PM (#14748953)
Google like the tobacco and oil companies and soda companies, etc largely/only want to fund research that furthers their business and public policy aims.

It's pretty simple. To equate the two, you'd have to say the USG only funds research that increases the size and scope of USG.

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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by joshuamorton on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:21PM (#14749936)
(Disclosure that I work at google)

Well, I mean there is that whole thing about how federal funding cannot go to gun violence research. So there are absolutely types of research that the government not just passively, but actively attempts to prevent.

I'm not saying that Google is being a good guy here, but I also don't think you can so easily make the argument that the (US) government is any better.

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