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Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by marcosdumay on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:49PM (#17330334)
Who would do that decentralized research? Why would they do that?

The real question is why do governments watch private interests take over public research institutions and not only do nothing to preserve the lack of bias, but even go out of their way to help the process? (And yes, the answer is not secret.)

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Re:Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup by skookumchuck on Saturday June 16, 2018 @10:25PM (#17330594)
Do you really think government research absent private bias is free from bias?

How government money gets spent is a very political process, and naturally that puts a lot of pressure on research organizations to produce the politically correct result.

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