Corrupt science flows from paid capture rather than ambient cultural bias.

Evidence

A scientist like Carleton Coon brought his ingrained biases to his research and performed science that confirmed those biases. The tobacco scientists who were deep in the pay of the tobacco industry were certainly raised in a culture that was more generally sympathetic to smoking than our own. But the situation was nevertheless driven by something other than ambient bias: In the 1960s, such researchers had been actively captured by a formal strategy of monied interests, who were actually paying (in the form of research grants and prizes) to get the “science” they wanted—in order to protect and extend their financial commitments. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 152

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the book’s core causal claim that industrial/monied technique, not ambient culture, drives attention science — the distinction between bias and paid capture carries over to today’s attention-industrial complex.
• SEED: An essay angle: the two failure modes of science — ambient bias versus purchased conclusions — and how diagnosing which one operates changes the remedy (reform culture vs. expose funding).