Industrial selection leaves no uncorrupted group to correct errors

Evidence

Notice that, unlike the Tobacco Strategy, industrial selection does not simply interfere with the public’s understanding of science. Instead, industrial selection disrupts the workings of the scientific community itself. This is especially worrying, because when industry succeeds in this sort of propaganda, there is no bastion of correct belief. — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 412

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concentrating research funding can make science more propaganda-proof — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 384; Fully honest scientists can still be beaten by industrial selection — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 404; Industry cherry-picking is continuous with ordinary scientific publication bias — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 359 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Industry cherry-picking is continuous with ordinary scientific publication bias #expands (0.90) — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 359
• Small founder samples make artificial selection results vulnerable to chance #responds-to (0.80) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 291
• Database construction requires biased selection decisions, so raw data never exists. #expands (0.75) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 324