if i tell all my friends to vote for you will you give me 10% + interest of the £500 ? :)

Question: if i tell all my friends to vote for you will you give me 10% + interest of the £500 ? :)

Asked by tiny2010 to Anne, Carolyn, Joe, Mariana, Nick on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: Money.
- Anne Seawright answered on 15 Mar 2010:
  
  Haha! Good business skills! Unfortunately the money doesn’t actually go into our pockets but we use it to promote science so it wouldn’t be mine to give away!
  
  Anne
- Nick Bradshaw answered on 15 Mar 2010:
  
  Interesting suggestion, but I’m afraid I found a better offer on comparethemeerkat.com
- Joseph Devlin answered on 15 Mar 2010:
  
  Nope, but thanks for asking.
- Carolyn McGettigan answered on 16 Mar 2010:
  
  Bribery and corruption on ‘I’m a Scientist…’? Scandalous! That would never do!
  
  But your question raises an important issue, as financial interests can affect research. For example, there are many cases where scientists have developed products via their research that make them a lot of money commercially, for example a drug or a piece of software. In order to keep selling the product, the scientist could be tempted to make sure that their research always produces results that support their product as the best available, which could lead to biased research. For this reason, research journals ask scientists to declare ‘competing financial interests’.
  
  So, if I promised you money in return for votes and I won, it wouldn’t be clear whether I won fairly, or just because of the bribe. Bad science!!
- Mariana Vargas answered on 16 Mar 2010:
  
  No 🙂

Question: if i tell all my friends to vote for you will you give me 10% + interest of the £500 ? :)

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