[Rjkd12]

I totall agree. As Bacon said, an article saying that companies invested in their own reasearch DON'T show any bias, I'd be suprised. That is part of the reason I am a large fan of Universities and their research. Look at the article, it says that THIS research article was done out of Harvard. A university only has an interest inasmuch as their results are usefull. If you find out a big medical advancement doesn't help, that is huge and a big discovery (in big pharma, if this is your prouduct, that is horrible, equivilent to shooting yourself in the foot). If you go out on a tangent with this new crazy theory that nobody believes, and then find out its wrong, that is when you are in a lot of trouble.

Problem with a person who wants to be a scientist is that industry pays A LOT more. You can leave a post-doc with 80,000 from industry, and maybe 50,00 from a university. If you make tenure track professorship that is great and your income can rival someone in industry. Tenure track posititons are hard to get though, and there are tons of people stuck in lower level "associate professor" positions that have a PhD, are great scientists, who only make 60,000 a year (which is horrible).

I recently recieved a link that talked about how Bush is trying to make it so people can't sue a pharmacutical company if their product ends up hurting people. If anybody has a link it would be great.