#industryfundedexperts — Public Fediverse posts

"We were called in for a staff meeting and our research director told us;

There's a lot of activists and journalists snooping around and trying to enquire about our funding... from the oil industry... If anybody talks to you... send them to me instead.

For an academic institution to actually tell its researchers; don't tell other people where your funding comes from!"

#BenFranta, 2018
https://www.spreaker.com/user/15244480/the-first-step-to-influencing-policy-set

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