away. Corporate funding is one of the two biggest factors involved in swaying today’s scientific research. The other is government. Each year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) doles out more than $33 billion in taxpayer-funded grants to over 58,000 entities. That purchases great control over America’s research landscape. NIH tends to give the most money to studies that will benefit its pharmaceutical industry partners. NIH is seen as less likely to fund big studies that could unearth inconvenient facts or harm sales of favored medical products.
