Reply #17: Hope you don't mind if I chime in here

[Grateful for Hope]

We see evidence of bias in research in pretty much any field that one cares to examine. Case in point is the fact that JAMA continues to publish research funded by those who have the most vested interest in having certain research published...the pharmaceutical industry, because it is not requiring that researchers divulge this information in order to get their research published. Are medical researchers whose research is funded by big pharm unbiased in their investigations? Of course not.

Quite a while back, I was studying developmental psychology in a doctoral program at NYU. I lasted about a year in that program because I began to question the theories that they chose to teach, and eventually made the decision to leave the program based on what I saw as an agenda. The theories that were taught tended to underestimate the child, and they highlighted the desirability of socializing the child so that the innate creativity each child is born with is, in effect, stifled. I saw this as tacit approval of society's need to control it's populace.

Anyway, I, too, think that it is foolhardy to trust that any mainstream commercial institution will operate without bias.

Very well said, truthmover.