drcoppersmith's Journal: Biased Science

While I hate seeing articles like this one, where the veracity of scientific claims are brought into question, it's something that the public needs to know.

Industrial support of biomedical research may bias scientific conclusions, as demonstrated by recent analyses of pharmaceutical studies. However, this issue has not been systematically examined in the area of nutrition research. The purpose of this study is to characterize financial sponsorship of scientific articles addressing the health effects of three commonly consumed beverages, and to determine how sponsorship affects published conclusions.

My fear is for all the good scientists out there who are doing ethical and important work that may have their findings called into question by someone who has read one too many of these bad science stories, as apparently even the peer-review process is failing.