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The Price of Truth: How Money Affects the Norms of Science (Practical and Professional Ethics)

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I found this book to be very informative. It was an easier read than the literature on the topic of philosophy of science. It illuminates the issues that money causes in not only individuals in research but in institutions such as universities, companies and the government. After reading this book I feel I am better able to detect not only financial biases in research, but all biases. This should be required reading for everyone in a technical field. I wish my doctors had read this book, but they are too busy listening to drug representatives. This book opens with the research done comparing Synthroid to other brands of T4 and found no difference but the research was suppressed due to financial incentives.

The only thing about the book that I did not like was that it did not appear to be edited very well. There were lots of simple grammatical errors.