[Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

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There are strong economic interests to cheat about medical research, so
we should be extremely fair, transparent and informative about those
articles.

Mentioning the funding source of any research is the building base of
critical trust.[1]

[1]: critical trust is the kind of trust one obtains after having access
to all the necessary data to make a judgment in complete liberty of thought.


On 08/11/2010 02:54, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...
>> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Monday, 8 November, 2010, 0:22
>> On 7 November 2010 12:26, David
>> Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> That naming funding sources is in fact *standard in
>> the field* is,
>>> however, something that strongly suggests we should
>> not deliberately
>>> withhold such information from the reader.
>>
>> Err we don't. They are free to consult the source.
>>
>> However the field in question has long established
>> standards when it
>> comes to citation.
>>
>> So for example when "Anti-HIV-1 activity of salivary MUC5B
>> and MUC7
>> mucins from HIV patients with different CD4 counts" cites
>> "Interaction
>> of HIV-1 and human salivary mucin" they do so in the form
>> of:
>>
>> "Bergey EJ, Cho MI, Blumberg BM, Hammarskjold ML, Rekosh D,
>> Epstein
>> LG, Levine MJ. Interaction of HIV-1 and human salivary
>> mucins. J
>> Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 1994;7:995–1002."
>>
>> And do not mention it's funding source
>>
>> (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967540/).
> 
> 
> This is a valid argument.
> 
> However, mentioning the funding source is not unheard of in medical 
> citations. See the first example given here:
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=citmed&part=A32352#A32755
> 
> Funding is consistently included on abstract pages. Examples:
> 
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013614
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010548
> 
> Here, funding is included along with the publication data. It is a standard 
> format.
> 
> Where references are hyperlinked, as in your counterexample, professionals 
> can view the article. Our readers cannot, unless they have access to the
> relevant academic database.
> 
> A.
> 
> 
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