tomate 🍅When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Carlos SolísScientists generally want you to know, the people that finance their work on the other hand? It depends on how marketable is the discovery
Marianne@csolisr this obsession with demonising funders is the same strand of anti-science, honestly.
Most funders are also people, part of an org set up to... Fund science.
Globally, much research is funded by governments (so via taxes, interested in R&D and the benefits to local areas that brings, primarily), charities (and ultimately citizens for the most part) and industry. And some big donors, but again mostly because they have pet causes.
Sure there can be some conflicts of interest with industry and government and wealthy individuals. But overwhelmingly it's just... Funding.
It's disclosed in publications. The scrutiny should be on scammers - in the US, medical insurance systems for example, and the 'wellness industry', multibillion dollars wasted on trash studied and marketing worldwide. And 'alt med'.
This idea that scientists' funders are all out there making nefarious decisions and invalidating research findings is just as rubbish as making scientists out to be evil secret-hoarders.
@noodlemaz Not entirely wrong there! There are both good and bad patrons of science - in one side we have government agencies, public universities, specific charities, while on the other side we have... governments, universities and charities whose funds are ultimately controlled by people with less charitable interests. It's less of a damnation of science in general, and more of a sad reality of current capitalism.