Are major public health donors overly influencing the scope and diversity of scientific research? 18/02/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Are major public health donors overly influencing the scope and diversity of scientific research?" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Gabriela Arguedas says 19/02/2008 at 7:05 pm Fist of all, I apologize becuase I`m not a native english speaker, so I may write in a very funny (ugly) way. I think it is quite probable that public health donors (public o private institutions) will set an agenda, may be, in a very diplomatic style, however, that agenda (I mean a list of priorities) is going to be related to specific needs in specific (powerful) sectors. Science is not neutral, we already know that, and also, science is not only guide by goodwill or humanity interest, research is also an activity promoted by commercial objectives. That´s one of the reasons that explain “orphan diseases”. For Third World countries, this is a big issue, becuase we can end up as a big factory for “scientific contractors”. Reply
Robert says 04/09/2008 at 10:00 pm Its a personal choice to be a donor and gov or anyone else would not interfere with this. http://www.EuropeWord.com Reply