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re: Louisiana's flagship university lets oil firms influence research...for a price
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:00 am to Hopeful Doc
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:00 am to Hopeful Doc
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Sounds pretty normal and one reason why single-study, industry-sponsored studies are better when there are groups of them by different organizations coming to very similar conclusions.
Private industry had funded research and has some influence over what takes priority with that research.
How is this news?
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Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:16 am to dewster
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How is this news?
Because academics want you to believe that they exist in a vacuum and want you to believe any conclusion they come to, but they can’t correlate that the funding from private industry isn’t a handout or charity and will disappear to in-house research departments if they’re just asked to write multimillion dollar checks with their hands in the air with regards to what will be looked at.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:22 am to member12
ok
I mean I am neither shocked nor offended that LSU researched Oil & Gas related and supportive topics.
It’s a major industry of the state that runs it
I mean I am neither shocked nor offended that LSU researched Oil & Gas related and supportive topics.
It’s a major industry of the state that runs it
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:37 am to ragincajun03
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"I have a hard time seeing a faculty member engaged in legitimate research being eager for an oil company … to vote on his or her research agenda" Robert Mann, political commentator and former LSU journalism professor
He’s a (former) journalism professor. What the frick does he know about “legitimate” STEM research?
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:52 am to Hopeful Doc
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So the private company outsources research to academia and keeps the IP and decides what is allowed for publication?
Not at all. The IP belongs to LSU and the company doesn’t decide what gets published. The golden hearted, non-profit journals do.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 10:07 am to member12
And?
I don’t see this as any more or less corrupt than letting other industries have influence over schools, let alone other countries.
The only reason people are flipping out is that it is the petrochemical industry doing so and not China.
I don’t see this as any more or less corrupt than letting other industries have influence over schools, let alone other countries.
The only reason people are flipping out is that it is the petrochemical industry doing so and not China.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 10:13 am to member12
Article is leftist BS.. what I want them to do is make a higher resolution of their cover image so I can use it as a desktop background 
I always love to see these articles show the industrial images with steam or cooling tower drift in the background in an attempt to give the illusion of pollution.
I always love to see these articles show the industrial images with steam or cooling tower drift in the background in an attempt to give the illusion of pollution.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 12:17 pm to lostinbr
yeah I don’t think the chemical or petroleum engineering PhDs are afraid of working with the O&G industry.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 12:24 pm to member12
Ever notice that government money is somehow “clean”, but corporate sources aren’t?
LSU gets LOT more money from federal government sources. Yet… somehow… it’s magically free from influence and directing research subject areas. Hell of a thing how thst works.
LSU gets LOT more money from federal government sources. Yet… somehow… it’s magically free from influence and directing research subject areas. Hell of a thing how thst works.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 12:37 pm to sta4ever
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But how does this translate onto the football field?
Hop aboard the Nuss Bus, fueled by Shell oil!
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