Corporations funded research designed to produce reassuring conclusions

Evidence

The MCA agreed to fund an epidemiological study in an effort to show that any adverse health effects are confined to workers handling the chemicals. The study would “hopefully be expected to … confirm that the condition is purely an occupational disease and in no way affects the general public using PVC products” (Nessell, 1967). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1784

Categorization

• XREF: Shows how knowledge itself is steered by institutional interest — parallels Frankfurt School account of research serving funders. — connects to: Corporate-funded specialization disguises toxicity and blocks environmental research — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 10
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1784