But by the time of the report's publication in May, both the health minister and the Confederation were at pains to stress the report was an entirely independent, impartial and academic piece of work.
3) Is there a discrepancy in what the health minister told the Cabinet in March - that the purpose of the report was to "articulate" the case for change - and what she told the public and AMs in May, namely that it was an independent, impartial and academic piece of work?
The research was not undertaken by a group of impartial university academics.
In her 11 August response, Barr questioned whether the special agent who conducted the investigation "can be an impartial evaluator of academic scientists, or anyone with liberal political beliefs".
As head of the CEA, Romer will lead a team that provides academic and impartial feedback on Obama's economic agenda.
"Strangers in Their Own Land," then, is not an academic's impartial effort to understand conservatives but rather a means to an end — an end toward which the writer regards conservatives as obstacles to overcome.
The examining committee usually consists of at least five members: four examiners including the three members of the Dissertation Reading Committee, plus an outside chair who serves as an impartial representative of the academic standards of the University.
Academic research councils make impartial grants.
But many academics believe jurors are surprisingly impartial.
I asked him if he saw any conflict in interest in signing an ad paid for by an energy company, when academics are expected to be impartial arbiters.
