Fully honest scientists can still be beaten by industrial selection

Evidence

In this way, industrial groups can exert pressure on the community of scientists to produce more results favorable to industry. And they do it simply by increasing the amount of work produced by well-intentioned scientists who happen to be wrong. This occurs even though the idealized scientists in the Holman-Bruner model are not people but just lines of computer code and so cannot possibly be biased or corrupted by industry lucre. — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 404

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Industry can distort science simply by funding the researchers who suit it — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 400; Industrial selection leaves no uncorrupted group to correct errors — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 412