Report Warns Of Biases in Drink Studies http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801... "The team found that studies funded by industry were four to eight times more likely to show bias in favor of sponsors' products than studies that did not receive industry funding."
Not really surprising and, given that IP blocks can be circumvented, the more interesting part involves how the study was performed and how it can be applied to reliable sources.
They excluded studies, extracted from the "National Library of Medicine's Medline database", that didn't cite funding sources.
In short, eliminate not only citations and the content based on it that are funded by industry, but those that don't provide funding citations. Nothing truly new when compared to WP:NPOV and WP:V, but maybe another way of looking at and evaluating citations that has not been explicitly stated.
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