How often do you think researchers' conclusions are influenced by their funding sources?

Answer Explanations

• Sometimes

  MeikoT
  You may want to make your funders happy.
• Sometimes

  user-477751
  Need to be honest and not accept funding that wants to interfere with conduct and presentation of research
• Often

  user-658650
  More often than we would like it to be the case. Some countries have very clear regulations as well as awareness regarding this while it is loose in some places. 
• Rarely

  user-606148
  Ethical researchers don't consciously engage in influence by their funding source, and ethical funders don't ask or expect it.  However, publication bias can be quite difficult to detect. 
• Sometimes

  user-753537
  Varies a lot
• Always

  user-208427
  The desire to obtain more funding strongly influences research outcomes
• Often Always

  user-771432
  
  Any source of funding from profit based franchises will be tainted  by bias that favors the FPO (for profit organization) 
• Sometimes

  user-813282
  Not in my field (chemistry) This might be less the case in medical sciences, eg.
• Sometimes

  user-259663
  Sometimes is enouth to looking for.the statistic. Data are a lot subseptible.
• Rarely

  user-683654
  For those who do not have alternatives, they have to continue to try to get funding for their research. 
• Sometimes

  user-242393
  It depends on funding source.
• Never

  user-876062
   Not all research funded by external sources is biased, but it's important to critically assess how the funding may shape the research questions, methodology, or interpretations. 
• Never

  user-179600
  because researchers made conclusion based study finding rather than funding point view.
• Sometimes

  user-93827
  depends on the funding
• Often

  user-531362
  If there is enough resources then shortcuts are avoidable.
• Sometimes

  user-379007
  In most scenarios we cannot assure the correlation between the funding practice and study conclusions. I think that the following list is more likely to make us doubt the correlation:
  1) The funder is engaging in commercial activities that correlates to the study.
  2) The study application settings are obscure or not transparent.
  3) The sponsor has funded other articles with the same interest.
  4) The paper has just one sponsor.
  5) The sponsor is not officially recognized in the local community.
  
  
• Rarely

  user-803280
  I believe this might happen more in the case of private industry funding sources.