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...unfortunately, when it comes to data on clinical drug trials, there is a lot that's not there. Why? First of all, researchers who receive industry funding don't necessarily get to decide whether the results are submitted for publication. Many researchers also practice a form of self-censorship in an effort to please their sponsors or in mistakenly believing that journals tend to favor positive results. Others will cherry-pick a narrow slice of data for publication while consigning the rest to the file drawer. Whatever the reason, the result is a bias against negative or inconclusive data that...
...Russian History and Literature concentrator at the College, Blumenfeld found himself under the tutelage of now-legendary Russian history scholar Richard Pipes. Pipes, the Baird Professor of History Emeritus, guided Blumenfeld through his undergraduate years, an academic journey that culminated in his thesis, “Gogol and Russian Censorship...
Blumenfeld argued that censorship acted as a fuel for global creativity, resulting in some of the world’s best-known works of artistry...
...attempt to change that is likely to run into resistance from some powerful business groups: advertisers, food companies and broadcasters. Banning certain types of ads, they argue, would amount to censorship. Besides, "if you don't have children's advertising, there won't be children's programs," says Dan Jaffe, executive vice president for the Association of National Advertisers. Such arguments helped persuade Congress not to act in the late 1970s, when an activist Federal Trade Commission chairman tried to stiffen rules for children's commercials. After fierce lobbying from business groups, the agency was stripped of most...
...this should show." Another, on China's disastrous traffic snarls, pleases him because it quoted academics blaming poor government planning while others defended consumers' right to buy cars. "This is balanced coverage," he says of the series. CCTV International's journalists "are light-years beyond where they were." But censorship remains. The channel's controller, Jiang Heping, a Party member who earned a journalism degree at Cardiff University in Wales, says his goal is a "Western approach," but his reporters still "can't report antigovernment activity, and anything anti-Party is taboo...