And this is not the only such case. Phys.org portal published material about a recent study of American scientists. According to its results, “donations” can influence the company's attitude towards a particular situation. Discuss It is known that back in 2003, Coca-Cola “donated” American Pediatric Dentistry Association one million dollars. The official reason was to “ improve children's dental health. '' However, after a while, dentists announced that sugary drinks did not actually significantly affect the occurrence of tooth decay and that there was no clear scientific evidence of their harm. This is far from the only such case.
American researchers have found that in fact corporations are able to win over non-profit organizations through money transfers. Key findings published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
For the study, scientists have selected a variety of rules, comments published by the federal government since 2003. They then compared it to tax filing data on company fund grants. It turned out that nonprofits were 76 percent more likely to comment on a rule that corporations were already paying attention to when they received “donations” from those corporations. Moreover, the organization's language itself became similar to the language used by the sponsoring company. At the same time, the language of the government also changed: its representatives described the reason for changing this or that rule, adhering to the policy of the corporation that “ donated '' funds.
Researchers assume that in fact corporations finance organizations that initially adhere to the same position as them.