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Tab Title: Publication Restrictions

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Publication restrictions imposed by industry farmers Contracts allow GM companies to prohibit the publication of any research regarding their product without explicit authorization from GM companies. GM corporations choose to publish in journals without strict requirements to reveal funding sources.

Tab Title: Contractual Agreements

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Contractual agreement between scientists and GM corporations: Carrying out GM research is restricted through said GM company because of technology agreements

Tab Title: GM Corporation Bias

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GM corporation bias towards friendly research: GM corporations may choose to participate in studies that are more likely to cast a favorable light on their products.

Tab Title: Financial Investments

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Scientists' financially invested position with GM corporations: Material researchers publish are, at times, analyzing the risks and benefits associated with their employer's products. Diels and colleagues (2011) state other factors influencing researchers' results are their career considerations, long standing personal scientific viewpoints and "value-based opinions over the role of science in society and faith in technology." Although scientific interests and personal values are different, scientists may make their interests and values one in the same—meaning, researchers may release results in line with their employer's corporate interests if it will benefit them. Additionally, in studies where at least one of the publishing authors was affiliated to the GM industry, funding amounts from GM corporations were left out of their report.


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