Conflicts of Interest in Science

How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health

Sheldon Krimsky

• Publisher: Hot Books
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781510736528
• eBook ISBN:
  9781510736535
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Professional Responsibility in Law

30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific Research For over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos, but far less attention is paid today to the various corporate and special interest groups who, through funding and lobbying efforts, have been able to shape the modern academic and scientific landscape to fit their agenda.In Conflicts of Interest Within Science, author Sheldon Krimsky compiles 21 peer-reviewed, academic articles that examine the complex relationship between the individual scientists conducting research and the groups who fund them. Ultimately, Krimsky's call to action concerns a collective movement among authors, peer reviewers, corporations and journal editors to disclose the sources of their funding. By holding scientists and the groups that fund them more accountable through increased transparency, we as a society can begin to rebuild trust in the integrity of knowledge.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Arthur Caplan
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “The Corporate Capture of Academic Science and Its Social Costs,”
• Chapter 2: “Academic-Corporate Ties in Biotechnology: A Quantitative Study,”
• Chapter 3: “Science, Society, and the Expanding Boundaries of Moral Discourse,”
• Chapter 4: “Financial Interest of Authors in Scientific Journals: A Pilot Study of 14 Publications,”
• Chapter 5: “Financial Interest and Its Disclosure in Scientific Publications,”
• Chapter 6: “The Profit of Scientific Discovery and Its Normative Implications,”
• Chapter 7: “Conflict of Interest and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis,”
• Chapter 8: “Conflict of Interest Policies in Science and Medical Journals: Editorial Practices and Author Disclosures,”
• Chapter 9: “Autonomy, Disinterest, and Entrepreneurial Science,”
• Chapter 10: “Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry,”
• Chapter 11: “The Ethical and Legal Foundations of Scientific ‘Conflict of Interest’,”
• Chapter 12: “When Sponsored Research Fails the Admissions Test: A Normative Framework,”
• Chapter 13: “Conflicts of Interest and Disclosure in the American Psychiatric Association’s Clinical Practice Guidelines,”
• Chapter 14: “Science in the Sunshine: Transparency of Financial Conflicts of Interest,”
• Chapter 15: “Combating the Funding Effect in Science: What’s Beyond Transparency?”
• Chapter 16: “Beware of Gifts That Come at Too Great a Cost: Danger Lurks for State Universities When Philanthropy Encroaches on Academic Independence,”
• Chapter 17: “Do Financial Conflicts of Interest Bias Research? An Inquiry into the ‘Funding Effect’ Hypothesis,”
• Chapter 18: “A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members’ Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists,”
• Chapter 19: “Tripartite Conflicts of Interest and High Stakes Patent Extensions in the DSM-5,”
• Chapter 20: “Conflicts of Interest among Committee Members in the National Academies’ Genetically Engineered Crop Study,”
• Chapter 21: “Conflict of Interest Policies and Industry Relationships of Guideline Development Group Members: A Cross-Sectional Study of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression,”
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index