Table 1.

How Financial Conflicts of Interest can Influence Research

Type of Influence	Example
Problem selection	Funding research projects that are likely to reflect positively on a company’s products
Study design	Under-powering a study to show no statistically significant evidence of an adverse effect
Data collection	Fabricating or falsifying data
Data analysis	Choosing a method of data analysis most likely to support one’s hypothesis
Data interpretation	Overstating the significance of data
Publication	Not publishing data or studies that undermine one’s hypothesis