Rather than feeling 'put upon' by disinterested researchers, gatekeepers should be involved in the research process from the beginning and have their contributions valued.
"Disinterested" academic research is now all too often permeated by covert interests.
Key quote: UK government policy should be informed by unbiased and disinterested scientific research," said Joan Walley MP, chair of the environmental audit committee, whose report in April accused the environment secretary Owen Paterson's department of "extraordinary complacency" over bees and pesticides.
A discussion of our findings with other peers included one person who is disinterested in our research; peers who are familiar with the research helped to provide useful challenges and insights.
Without disinterested parties conducting research on the effects of long-term antidepressant use, I can only speculate as to what years of this treatment has done to my mind.
At Columbia, Mills promoted the idea that social scientists should not merely be disinterested observers engaged in research and theory but assert their social responsibility.
The story has clearly appeared as a political struggle, pitting morally opposed forces against each other: disinterested knowledge against interested knowledge - research against spying and the science of archaeology, with little immediately practical application, against the science of geology, so useful to national governments seeking expansion of wealth and power.
I did not research this as a disinterested third party".
Skepticism, though, is going to keep plaguing A2 milk until a disinterested party performs a well-designed research study on humans that goes further than the EFSA study, and when scientists buy into its conclusions.
And researchers are not necessarily disinterested parties: Lander is a director at Cambridge, Mass.-based Millennium, which partly funded this research.
