They are often in cahoots with each other. Roy Poses with more:
Academic’s dysfunction and industry’s interests and lack of ethics may have reached an ideal stage of co-dependency, forming an “academia-industrial complex” that has led to today’s debasement of biomedicine.That the inner workings of this “complex” are now being exposed comes at a critical juncture and offers a chance at remediation. With this exposure and with the new information dissemination tools enabled by the Internet, there may yet be hope for reform.
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