Comments on: The Journal of Scientific Exploration http://www.nautis.com/2009/05/the-journal-of-scientific-exploration/ Jung, Sheldrake, Campbell, Bergson & Me Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:44:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sharon McEachernhttp://www.nautis.com/2009/05/the-journal-of-scientific-exploration/comment-page-1/#comment-15419 Sharon McEachern Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:13:11 +0000 http://www.nautis.com/?p=1467#comment-15419 Speaking about experimental effects in scientific research, chew on this : Wrigley Gum recently paid for research which found that chewing gum in class makes teens smarter in math! You get what you pay for. The "Wrigley Science Institute" (puh-leez!) funded research by Baylor University of Medicine in Houstaon. And guess what? Why, they found that kids get smarter when chewing Wrigley's sugar-free gum.Sponsored (read: paid for) studies invariably produce results favorable to the economic interests of the sponsor. Wrigley wants to sell more gum! And if it ends the days of gum being contraband in the class room , Wrigley will make more money. Ethic Soup blog has more on this research at:http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/05/chew-on-this-wrigley-research-claims-gum-makes-teens-smarter.htmlIt's like another article we wrote on Ethic Soup about sponsored (funded) research with questionable objectivity. Vanderbilt University's Institute of Coffee Studies conducted research on the benefits of drinking coffee (never any of the negative, harmful health aspects of caffeine) . This supposed "institute" is funded by the coffee growers and coffee industry. It began some 10 years ago with $6 million in funding from Brazil coffee growers. You can read about this research at:http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/01/vanderbilt-research-coffeegrowers-pay-researcher-distorts.htmlIt's happening at many campuses of higher education where scientific objectivity and codes of ethics often seem to be absent. You'd think that the real scientists at these universities would insist on censure of the fake scientists, if only to save their own credibility. Speaking about experimental effects in scientific research, chew on this : Wrigley Gum recently paid for research which found that chewing gum in class makes teens smarter in math! You get what you pay for. The “Wrigley Science Institute” (puh-leez!) funded research by Baylor University of Medicine in Houstaon. And guess what? Why, they found that kids get smarter when chewing Wrigley’s sugar-free gum.

Sponsored (read: paid for) studies invariably produce results favorable to the economic interests of the sponsor. Wrigley wants to sell more gum! And if it ends the days of gum being contraband in the class room , Wrigley will make more money. Ethic Soup blog has more on this research at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/05/chew-on-this-wrigley-research-claims-gum-makes-teens-smarter.html

It’s like another article we wrote on Ethic Soup about sponsored (funded) research with questionable objectivity. Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Coffee Studies conducted research on the benefits of drinking coffee (never any of the negative, harmful health aspects of caffeine) . This supposed “institute” is funded by the coffee growers and coffee industry. It began some 10 years ago with $6 million in funding from Brazil coffee growers. You can read about this research at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/01/vanderbilt-research-coffeegrowers-pay-researcher-distorts.html

It’s happening at many campuses of higher education where scientific objectivity and codes of ethics often seem to be absent. You’d think that the real scientists at these universities would insist on censure of the fake scientists, if only to save their own credibility.

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