With all of this in mind, I sought some reflections on the situation from one of the University of Texas's own experts on conflict of interest, the law professor Thomas O. McGarity, who is a co-author, with his colleague Wendy Wagner, of the book "Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research".
Commentary Science's Insight section presents analysis by scientists and other experts on issues of interest to Science readers.
Some academic experts on conflicts of interest are also disappointed that the draft plan to require posting of faculty conflicts on the Web was dropped since that will make the information harder to obtain and analyze.
The major objectives of the workshop are to promote communications among APEC economies' food security researchers and experts, build interest on food security strategies, enhance research capacity and offer policy recommendations to improve food security.
His relationship with scientists in China started as a lecturer at the University of Exeter when he made a series of short trips to collaborate with BUCT experts on his principal research interest: layered inorganic materials.
But the exact implication of his remarks for interest rates was left unspecified.A more detailed insight came from Frederic Mishkin*, a Fed governor who, along with Mr Bernanke himself, is one of the most accomplished monetary experts on the central bank's interest-rate setting committee.
Most experts expect the Fed will start moving on interest rates this December.
According to two experts on financial aid, if the interest rate on Stafford loans doubles to 6.8 percent this summer, as scheduled, students would pay only about $6 more a month for one year of loans.
Experts on tax law and economists interested in inequality have been writing about the carried-interest deduction for years.
That sounds obvious enough, but it is routinely denied by money managers, investment "experts" on television, and stock brokers, whose interest, as it happens, is to sell stocks (or advice) to the "ordinary investor" whenever they can.
Gilmore called for a better balance of commercial interests and independent experts on it.
