Does Corporate Funding Corrupt Science? March 2, 2012

Some 65% of all research and development in the U.S. is funded by private interests. History shows that the corporate funding of scientific research can be problematic -- the tobacco industry offers a potent example. When corporations do science, is truth the ultimate goal, or is stockholder profit?

Please join five outstanding scholars and teachers as they take part in a panel discussion that asks, "Does Corporate Funding Corrupt Science?":

Lisa Bero, Professor of Health Policy, UC San Francisco
Hank Greely, Professor of Law, Stanford
Dave Patterson, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Robert Proctor, Professor of History, Stanford
Richard Zare, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford

These experts will examine at least five major industries: pharmaceuticals (Bero), biomedicine (Greely), software (Patterson), tobacco (Proctor), and chemistry (Zare). Subsequent discussion of the various controversies promises to be enlightening and important.

Does truth triumph in corporate research? Under what conditions might it not? Wonderfest and the Stanford Chemistry Department jointly present a very special panel discussion. Come take part!

Official Website: http://wonderfest.org