Conflicts of interest represent circumstances in which professional judgments or actions
regarding a primary interest, such as the responsibilities of a medical researcher, may be at …

Background Starting in the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry sought to increase
prescribing of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. Influencing the content of clinical practice …

This Element introduces the philosophical literature on values in science by examining four
questions:(1) How do values influence science?(2) Should we actively incorporate values in …

There is a growing consensus among philosophers of science that core parts of the scientific
process involve non-epistemic values. This undermines the traditional foundation for public …

Private companies provide by far the most funding for scientific research and development.
Nevertheless, relatively little attention has been paid to the dynamics of industry‐funded …

Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children,
even though popular anti-vaccine myths–eg 'vaccines cause autism'–have been debunked …

Bias, perhaps best described as 'any process at any stage of inference which tends to
produce results or conclusions that differ systematically from the truth,'can pollute the entire …

The pharmaceutical and medical device industries fund a substantial portion of the
continuing medical education (CME) of physicians in Canada. Along with this financial …

The commercialization of academic science has come to be understood as economically
desirable for institutions, individual researchers, and the public. Not surprisingly, commercial …

In this paper, I argue for a new way to understand the integration of facts and values in the
concept of mental disorder that has the potential to avoid the flaws of previous hybrid …