BF2S Forums Privately Funded Research

Pug wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:

Edit: @Pug:

Yes, people will eventually figure it out...I just wonder what happens in that case, lol

Well, they sue.

'that' referring to when unfavorable research is found when funded by the company in question.  Not when the public finally finds out that the product/method/whatever sucks.

Serious science publications (like Nature, for example), have very, very rigid scientific, publication and peer review guidelines to make sure their reputation isn't damaged by dubious or biased research.

So if you want to know if a scientific research is really science and not marketing, check the reputation of the publisher. To do that you might have to ask someone in the field.

Now, when a publisher with such a fancy name like the Journal of the American Medical Association publishes something that obviously has little or no impact on the scientific community of its field,  like comparing some wight-loss program to dieting by yourself:

Turquoise wrote:

JAMA, one of the premier peer-reviewed health publications in the United States, published the Jenny Craig-funded study that had to do with -- surprise! -- women losing weight in the Jenny Craig weight-loss program. The study found that women in the Jenny Craig program lost between three and four times as much weight as those who dieted independently.

then you start to question how serious and reputable it really is...