He argued that scientists, motivated by the pressures to publish and entangled in a web of conflicts of interest, manipulate data so often that it's impossible to trust the body of scientific literature that assesses the efficacy of hormone-replacement therapy or vitamin E or low-dose aspirin.
Recent scandals involving former Representative Randy Cunningham, Republican of California, and the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, both now in prison, provided a glimpse into how special interests manipulate the federal government.
Very little, as a study by the department of economics at San Jose State University showed, suggesting that "special interests manipulated the levers of government to create a product whose costs far exceed its benefits" – and what benefits there were accrued to better-off travellers at the expense of the general population of taxpayers.
Elected representatives have no minds of their own and respond only to the whims of public opinion as they seek re-election; special interests manipulate the people into voting for ever-lower taxes and higher government spending, sometimes even supporting self-destructive wars.
Narrow business interests manipulate government policymakers, and those interests prosper to the detriment of everyone else.
With regard to biofuels, Munro [22] has shown how, in the United States, a powerful coalition of agricultural interests manipulated the governance of biofuels by linking it to public concerns about climate change and energy security.
Then I decided to return to journalism to explain how corporations and other moneyed interests manipulate public opinion and influence both elections and public policy.
Both entities could have the interest of manipulating data on the data store in case of cover ups, e.g., manipulating previously delivered incorrect data.
This might indicate an interest in manipulating the price.
Other times it is driven more by ethnic and racial divisions, or an interest in manipulating political sentiment, than by any desire to redistribute land equitably.
