Of course. But they don't then go and investigate the people they took
money from. To do so effects an appearance of impropriety, which dooms
any results to uselessness, since people who don't like the results have
an excuse not to listen to them, and others just can't tell what the
truth is.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Lizard wrote:
> "Colin A. Reed" wrote:
> >
> > An independent research group that takes money from the people it's
> > supposed to be researching is either accepting bribes or stupid, neither
> > of which says anything good about their conclusions.
> >
> Uhm..every non-profit group takes money from contributors...it's how
> they survive, being, well, non-profit.
>
