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When research teams disagree about scientific integrity under funding pressure

Our research team's principal investigator has been pressuring us to exclude data that doesn't support the pharmaceutical company funding our study and some team members think we should comply to protect future funding while others want to publish the full results regardless.

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Researchers face institutional pressure to compromise scientific integrity while balancing career survival against intellectual honesty.

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