As Commerce Secretary, #HowardLutnick controls the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) and the National Weather Service (#NWS). As he dismantles them, note that he and his sons run a firm that invests in for-profit, private-sector firms that hope to replace NOAA and NWS.
https://newrepublic.com/post/197750/donald-trump-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-budget-cuts-weather-service

#COIs #DefendResearch #Swamp #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Nina E. Steinkopf, patient advocate, has written an article about a paper on CBT as CFS treatment published in Frontier. "Despite evidence of a financial conflict of interest; after nearly two years the journal Frontier has decided to believe in the authors and publish a worthless corrigendum".

https://melivet.com/2023/03/05/a-sad-day-for-science/

#MEcfs #PwME #COI #COIs #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @cfs

EASE Webinar: Competing interests in health and medical journal publishing
Tuesday, 31 January 2023 10am (UK time)

Mabel Chew, Senior Editor at The Lancet, Sydney, Australia unpacks what competing interests are and discusses evidence on COIs in relation to health and medical journals.

https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-webinar-competing-interests-in-health-and-medical-journal-publishing/

#EuropeanAssociationOfScienceEditors #EASEevents #EASEeditors #COI #ConflictsOfInterest #JournalPublishing #MedicalJournals #HealthResearch #Webinar #CompetingInterests #TheLancet #COIs

I respect Hiroko Tabuchi but once again, we have a NYT story on #COIs btw #academia and industry focused on the wrong points. Far too much time is spent on compliance w/ disclosure requirements, when disclosure FAILS as a remedy for #MotivatedBias.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/climate/frank-mitloehner-uc-davis.html?smid=url-share

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