No research is free of bias. For this reason, it is best practice in scientific journals to report limitations and conflicts of interest. Nonprofits producing their own research for their own benefit can circumvent this quality assurance. Until nonprofits provide transparency with regard to what influences their goalsetting and outcome analyses, their research should be considered unreliable and ungeneralizable.
Activists should be wary of science conducted by non-scientists, particularly non-scientists whose paychecks depend upon the benevolence of conservative donors and foundations. The nonprofit sector is an arm of the state-industry nexus. One consequence of this alliance is the framing of radical social justice politics as “unrealistic” or “utopian.” What the movement needs now is support for honest research that is not beholden to powerful interests and is instead accountable to Nonhuman Animals.
Readers can learn more about the social movement politics of Nonhuman Animal rights and veganism in my 2019 publication, Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits. The beautiful cover art for this text was created by vegan artist Lynda Bell and prints are available on her website, artbylyndabell.com.
Readers can learn more about the politics of vegan research in my 2016 publication, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights.
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No research is free of bias. For this reason, it is best practice in scientific journals to report limitations and conflicts of interest. Nonprofits producing their own research for their own benefit can circumvent this quality assurance. Until nonprofits provide transparency with regard to what influences their goalsetting and outcome analyses, their research should be considered unreliable and ungeneralizable.
Activists should be wary of science conducted by non-scientists, particularly non-scientists whose paychecks depend upon the benevolence of conservative donors and foundations. The nonprofit sector is an arm of the state-industry nexus. One consequence of this alliance is the framing of radical social justice politics as “unrealistic” or “utopian.” What the movement needs now is support for honest research that is not beholden to powerful interests and is instead accountable to Nonhuman Animals.
Readers can learn more about the social movement politics of Nonhuman Animal rights and veganism in my 2019 publication, Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits. The beautiful cover art for this text was created by vegan artist Lynda Bell and prints are available on her website, artbylyndabell.com.
Readers can learn more about the politics of vegan research in my 2016 publication, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights.
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