Top EU scientist calls for ethical standards to ease suspicion of industry

The suspicion that industrial involvement in science is only geared towards profit threatens to derail European policymaking and new ethical standards could help solve the issue, the EU’s chief scientific advisor has said.

Professor Anne Glover, the chief scientific advisor to Commission President José Manuel Barroso, said she had become “extremely uncomfortable” witnessing the lack of trust in some quarters at the role of industry in science.