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#1 Submitted by svalacco on January 2, 2020 - 3:51pm

Interesting, why would anyone support research that was not beneficial to them. I don't see Greenpeace funding research into better ways to extract oil and I don't expect them to either.

Bias fears over Uber academic research programme

Critics claim that only ‘congenial’ researchers get access to ride-hailing company’s data, while academic co-authors have potential conflicts of interest

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