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    "pk": 49363,
    "title": "Industry Influencing Collective Scientific Reasoning: A Bayesian, Agent-based Exploration",
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    "abstract": "Recent work in Bayesian, agent-based modelling of scientific communities has employed the Bala-Goyal framework to study the mechanisms involved when industry influence applies the so-called 'Tobacco  Strategy' to undermine collective inquiry. Motivated by limitations of these models, we propose an alternative based on a recently introduced framework for normative argument exchange across networks. We implement representations of two distinct types of industry influence: `Obfuscating' influence directs inquiry to experiments with low expected value of information. `Misleading' influence filters private research and only communicates misleading signals from the world. We explored the impacts of both strategies on the polarization \\& mean error of, and flow of information through, social networks of scientists via computer simulations. We conclude that even against highly optimistic background assumptions, and in a less simplified model of inquiry and argumentation, industry influence poses a plausible threat to collective deliberation.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Causal reasoning; Agent-based Modeling; Bayesian modeling"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06t6b7v0",
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            "first_name": "Klee",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schöppl",
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            "institution": "University of Groningen",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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