Networks held unexplained veto power over scientific committee membership
Evidence
Finch explained that each network was allowed to veto, without explanation, any of the nominees on the list submitted by professional associations and the broadcast networks. I was one of eight researchers, including Len Berkowitz, Percy Tannenbaum, the child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, and the sociologists Leo Bogart and Otto Larsen, who were vetoed. Finch provided two justifications for the veto procedure—precedent and objectivity. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 908
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: A textbook case of regulatory capture via personnel vetting; parallels the industry-panel stacking in and .
- SEED: Essay angle: the ‘precedent and objectivity’ double rationale for industry veto over science panels—how veto power is framed as ensuring impartiality when it in fact guarantees it.