Corporate Influence on Science and Regulation – II

Abstract

The influence of corporate interests – most notably from the cigarette, chemical, pharmaceutical, and food industries – on science and on health and environmental regulation has attracted a growing media and public attention. STS research has explored this issue in different ways, for example through the analysis of the impact of industry-funding on scientific publications, the study of corporate-biases in the production regulatory standards, or more broadly by questioning the commercialization of science. This panel brings together researchers taking on board the question of corporate influence on science and public regulation. This session will focus on the politics and policies of corporate influence.

Individual Presentations

• Corporate Networking: Philanthropic Foundations and the Promotion of Business Interests - Marc-Olivier Déplaude, French National Institute for Agricultural research; Nicolas Larchet, Université du Havre; Thomas Depecker, French National Institute for Agricultural research

• Constructing a "Green" Campus: Co-Shaping of Environmental Science, Corporation, and Public Discourse at a Polytechnic University - Paul Stephen Gillis-Smith, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo; Danielle Davis, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

• "Ordinary People Are Asking for Science": Lobbying Strategies Through Pro-Science Movements in Europe - Sylvain Laurens, EHESS Paris; Paul Guille Escuret, Paris 4 (GEMASS) - Aix-Marseille (VITROME)

Session Organizer

• Boris Hauray, Inserm