Frackers Fund University Research that Proves their side - Business Week

Gee, this is from Bloomberg Business Week.  Actually, common sense because lots of grant funded research is done to prove someone's point (or disprove)  Quite a long article with many comments.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-23/frackers-fund-universit...

PS: our current favorite article about groups manipulating science to prove their point is in many more newspapers today!  The contrast between these two articles is amazing.  Or, do they mostly agree???

http://www.gohaynesvilleshale.com/forum/topics/fracking-critics-usi...

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Permalink Reply by dbob on July 23, 2012 at 12:29

The article indicating both sides mis-use science is more rational and spot on.  This article attempts to insinuate something sinister based on the funding source.  Government funded academics  disagree every day, Pharmaceutical studies are largely paid for by industry.  

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