The Chronicle: ational Academies Fail to Avoid Conflicts of Interest on Scientific Panels, Watchdog Says
About one-fifth of scientists who have helped write scientific reports for the National Academies had direct financial ties to industry groups with a stake in the findings, a watchdog group reported on Monday. Many of the ties were not disclosed publicly, and some of the panels had few or no members representing consumer or health advocates, the group said.
The findings, by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, were criticized on Monday as “wrong and misleading” by E. William Colglazier, the academies’ executive officer. He said there were no direct conflicts of interest, as the academies define them, among the panel members studied.
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