Money influences research topics but cannot directly buy truth claims

Evidence

Of course money, to cite just this single example, is not without influence over the production of truths. The person who can finance research can also direct the choice of subject-matter. Nevertheless there is no direct payment in terms of true or untrue statements, let alone a correlation such that money can be directly exchanged for truth without the mediation of the specific code of the other media. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 785

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in institutional mediation — the financing of the research establishment Stevens serves operates through organization, not direct media conversion. — connects to: Wealth determines which scientific claims can be verified as true — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 336