Ask HN: Under pressure from industry, how can academics protect themselves?

Re:Ask HN: Under pressure from industry, how can academics p... by Jugurtha on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:26AM (#28628773)

>It probably also opens us to accusations of mishandled data / bad interpretation by the company, though?

Isn't that how science works? I also don't think they're called accusations.

You work with data and you state something based on that data. Someone else may point out that some steps of the process are flawed, or the data is flawed. That's the very nature of this.

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Re:Ask HN: Under pressure from industry, how can academics p... by rscho on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:12AM (#28630327)

Depends on who makes the claim, I guess. We are absolutely not afraid of scientific reviews. We're afraid of potential legal reviews made in bad faith. A company doesn't have to win a legal case to win against researchers, they just have to make a fuss.

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Re:Ask HN: Under pressure from industry, how can academics p... by Jugurtha on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:45PM (#28654864)

I see. Is this common in your area of research?

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Re:Ask HN: Under pressure from industry, how can academics p... by rscho on Saturday September 25, 2021 @04:02PM (#28655812)

It's not common, although a group was sued by a company this year. So we'd like to anticipate, just in case.

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