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Scientists are always part of a larger institution that is driven by funding. It does not matter whether they draw their checks from Harvard, the US Government, or they work for a tobacco company. For a scientist, a finding that goes against funding is not in the best interest of tenure or continued employment.
I don't think data from the ASMFC is any less slanted than the data from Stripers Forever. I think they both present their data in such a way as to further their respective causes.
To believe that if one group found supportive data of the opposition's position and would report as so speaks to an extreme lack of sophistication. Maybe things were different at one time, before the preponderance of lobbyists, big-money influence, and the wholesale corruption of our institutions. But it's pretty clear now that everything is about money.
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