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Elsevier will be providing data to guide EU policy decisions that it stands to gain from materially in significant ways.

"This will NOT happen again," an NIH official promised an alcohol industry lobbyist in an email, referring to a study linking marketing to underage drinking.

Top researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have called for a boycott of the South Korean university KAIST after it opened a lab with the defense firm Hanwha Systems.

What makes a conflict of interest (COI) in science? Definitions differ, but broadly agree on one thing: an influence that can cloud a researcher’s objectivity. Nature and the other Nature Research journals are taking into account some of these non-financial sources of possible tension and conflict.

Leaked emails reveal that the foundation is actively making offers of grants to officials at the WHO as well as people in India and abroad without explicitly revealing its single source of funding – Philip Morris International.

Golden OA creates a conflict of interest: in a situation where the number of scientists is larger than the number of available positions, both journals and scientists benefit from publishing as many articles as possible.

Pour some sugar (science) on meeeee.

With nudge from federal regulators, an internal investigation found big problems.

Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.

One of the biggest and best studies of alcohol's effects on health is underway. But funding from the alcohol industry is already undercutting its results.

With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.

Google wants to move on from this discussion and let the academics speak for themselves.

Google has reportedly financed hundreds of research papers to help fight regulation that could harm it, via stipends of $5,000 to $400,000.

Scientists need funding to do their work. But a new study finds turning to industry partners taints perceptions of university research, and including other kinds of partners doesn't really help.

Critics of two reports by the academies have cited potential disclosure problems among study panelists. Now, an official says, the idea of a policy review "has just gained more and more traction."

PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts.

A series of journalism conferences on obesity received covert funding from Coca-Cola.

Are academic findings still reliable if the studies are bankrolled by corporate dollars?

Trump’s pick for the US regulatory agency will bring experience and a clear vision — as well as ties to industry.