{"title":"Scientific Secrecy and 'Spin': The Sad, Sleazy Saga of the Trials of Remune","authors":"S. Haack","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.692042","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A drug company funds a large-scale clinical trial of a new AIDS therapy; when the results are unfavorable, the company tries to prevent their being published; when the researchers go ahead with publication anyway; the company seeks millions of dollars in damages. Of course, viewed more closely, things are more complicated than they seem at first. The author sketches an account of what science is and does that suggests how and why the ways in which scientific work is funded can distort or even block its progress, and concludes with some thoughts about industrial sponsorship of scientific research in the universities.","PeriodicalId":39484,"journal":{"name":"Law and Contemporary Problems","volume":"96 3 1","pages":"47-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Law and Contemporary Problems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.692042","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A drug company funds a large-scale clinical trial of a new AIDS therapy; when the results are unfavorable, the company tries to prevent their being published; when the researchers go ahead with publication anyway; the company seeks millions of dollars in damages. Of course, viewed more closely, things are more complicated than they seem at first. The author sketches an account of what science is and does that suggests how and why the ways in which scientific work is funded can distort or even block its progress, and concludes with some thoughts about industrial sponsorship of scientific research in the universities.
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Law and Contemporary Problems was founded in 1933 and is the oldest journal published at Duke Law School. It is a quarterly, interdisciplinary, faculty-edited publication of Duke Law School. L&CP recognizes that many fields in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities can enhance the development and understanding of law. It is our purpose to seek out these areas of overlap and to publish balanced symposia that enlighten not just legal readers, but readers from these other disciplines as well. L&CP uses a symposium format, generally publishing one symposium per issue on a topic of contemporary concern. Authors and articles are selected to ensure that each issue collectively creates a unified presentation of the contemporary problem under consideration. L&CP hosts an annual conference at Duke Law School featuring the authors of one of the year’s four symposia.
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