05-11-2011, 05:42 PM
I think Universities have be "whoring it up" for quite some time. In the graduate department I attended, Ely Lily was responsible for the grant that supported much of the research. If you think they tolerated a "free exchange of ideas", you would be wrong. There were certain things they wanted to see come out of the lab, and that's what came out of the lab. I guess it isn't as newsworthy when a pharmaceutical company controls what comes out of a department in a graduate school, but the end result is just as damaging, imo. kj.