Chaz Hogenauer
Honr 292
11/24/2017
How Corporations and Free Markets Affect the Creation of Knowledge In our society there is knowledge created every second of every day. All day long there are new stories covered by CNN, FOX News, ABC News, The Young Turks, etc. and even more rapidly than these news stations can cover stories articles are published on Facebook, Twitter, Redit etc. This creates a nonstop flow of media and new stories right into our cells phones, laptops, televisions, and even now our watches. Some might argue this is a bad thing; some might argue that this is a good thing, but not many of us stop to think about many of these new stories were created. And even fewer of us stop to consider how the facts that were used to
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One of the best examples of this is the fracking industry. Corporations in the fracking industry are constantly funding and publishing research that shows that the issues that are usually associated with a fracking area and not a result of the fracking itself. One of the studies that I found on hydraulic fracturing stated in bold on the top of the article, “There have been confirmed cases of groundwater contamination in hydraulic fracturing in the at least 2 million wells fracked over the past 65+ years.” When I researched the impact of hydraulic fracturing in the EPA’s website I found that they stated, the “EPA found the hydraulic fracturing can impact drinking water resources.” This is a complete contraction to the other study that seemed to be funded by the fracking industry or a cooperation in that industry. The corporation is attempting to create the knowledge that hydraulic fracking does not impact the surrounding groundwater or drinking water, while the EPA (a more unbias source) disagrees with them. If the fracking corporation were able to win the public option with their studies the public would be much more receptive to the corporation installing new drilling operations in their community. These corporations have many different tactics that they use to influence the conclusions of a study. One of these is the suppression or termination of certain research if it were to negatively affect the companies bottom line. A corporation might choose to fund
6. Many drug safety research studies are sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that would financially benefit if the results of the study are favorable. Is this an example of a potential confounding factor?
The United States is known for having a free-enterprise economy where a business can be conducted freely without government involved. In free-enterprise economies, goods and services are traded openly and are produced depending on the demand. People who support this type of economy believe it motivates businesses to make money and welcome new ideas. An important part of the economy is to have full employment and low inflation.
Brian Caswell’s “A Cage of Butterflies”(1992) primarily explores how scientific research can be corrupted by the profit motive using Raecorp incorporated as the source of this corruption. Also, these techniques are used
For example,it say, “Before the Board of Regents announced its decision, the negative press about Southam’s work had gotten the attention of the NIH, which funded his research and required it's investigators to get consent for all studies involving humans.” Another example,it says, “Beecher published a detailed list of the twenty-two worst offenders, including researchers who'd injected children with hepatitis and others who'd poisoned patients under anesthesia using carbon dioxide. Southam’s study was included as example number 17.” These pieces of textual evidence show how NIH found Southam and other scientists were doing unethical
The market revolution in the United States brought a sudden change in the manual labor system originating in south and digressed to the north and later spread to the entire world. The integral part of the economic growth in the United States in the nineteenth century was a good thing that brought change in the market. In respect to the change, America took its first major step in creating the world’s most stable and strongest economy, which gave room for growth among the citizens.
nation's great cities and as oil refining rose so did the popularity of the automobile. With these
During the late 1700’s, the United States was no longer a possession of Britain, instead it was a market for industrial goods and the world’s major source for tobacco, cotton, and other agricultural products. A labor revolution started to occur in the United States throughout the early 1800’s. There was a shift from an agricultural economy to an industrial market system. After the War of 1812, the domestic marketplace changed due to the strong pressure of social and economic forces. Major innovations in transportation allowed the movement of information, people, and merchandise. Textile mills and factories became an important base for jobs, especially for women. There was also widespread economic growth during this time period
ITC Ltd.’s strategy plan for compliance with the current acceptable standards or norms relative to social responsibility today is well thought out, especially for a company that sells potentially dangerous products, and try to meet and listen to all demands and laws in place since the start of their business. Even though in 2014 a new bill was passed for the majority of companies to build accountability and also have the government looking over the private sector (Banerjee, 2013). “The CSR provision requires affected companies to spend at least 2 percent of their average net profits made in the preceding three years on CSR” (Banerjee, 2013). Even though this bill has caused a lot of uproar for companies, ITC has actually already been
A corporation was originally designed to allow for the forming of a group to get a single project done, after which it would be disbanded. At the end of the Civil War, the 14th amendment was passed in order to protect the rights of former slaves. At this point, corporate lawyers worked to define a corporation as a “person,” granting them the right to life, liberty and property. Ever since this distinction was made, corporations have become bigger and bigger, controlling many aspects of the economy and the lives of Americans. Corporations are not good for America because they outsource jobs, they lie and deceive, and they knowingly make and sell products that can harm people and animals, all in order to raise profits.
Can we trust research conducted by or paid for by the regulated chemical companies? Why or Why not?
It has become increasingly difficult for new ideas to come out in print for this reason. Rifka Rosenwein reinforces these ideas by stating, “Having a few huge corporations control our outlets of expressions could lead to less aggressive news coverage and a more muted marketplaces of ideas.”2[2] And that is exactly what is happening, not only in news coverage and the marketplace, but in print media as well. When large companies dominate the print media of the United States, we are allowing information to be screened, weeded out, and chosen by these companies, and these companies alone.
They create goals, which do not include their own products, but say they are conducting research that will lead to the answer they are intended to research. These Pharmaceutical companies use varies ways to make their product look affective. They use data that will make the product seem useful just like the tobacco industry uses sponsored scientific name in their research to make it look applicable. Climate changes in these industries are looked upon because they cast a bad image. In all own science has created its own section in the scientific community because it is well funded by companies, which uses peoples' names in the field to make their research more useful to the common
On December 1, 2012, Environmental Solutions Inc., (“Environmental”) offered to buy Joel Freedman’s (“Freedman”) company, Advanced Technologies. After discussing the offer with his attorney, he accepted to sell his company on August 1, 2013. On August 15, 2013, attorneys from both companies signed a letter of intent to acquire Advanced Technologies assets and liabilities for $5million. On September 30, 2013, the letter of intent was presented and approved by Environmental Solution’s board of directors. On October 15, 2013, the acquisition was completed and closed.
In many High Schools across America, there is a heated debate taking place on whether or not corporate sponsorship belongs in the school. There is a group of frantic, distraught soccer moms running around, begging the school committee members to not allow this big corporation access to their school They cite a change of curriculum, and the exposement of personal information Coke will be able to get their hands on, as reasons to turn them away. Sitting in the other end of this tension-filled room, there is a representative from this corporation, whom we can call Tom, pleading for his company to have access to the high school . It’s probably worth mentioning that Tom is in the doghouse, and
?gI hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.?h