Accepting Funding with Strings Attached

A large corporation offers a grant to fund basic research, with only the proviso that any journal articles must be approved by their corporate publicity office before being submitted for publication.  The facility needs this grant to buy necessary equipment and fund attendance at conferences; moreover, the director expects that corporate oversight will have no impact on the normal publication process.  Should he accept the grant?

J1G says:  No. It's a Faustian deal.  Better to do no science than to sell your soul to do it.

K5F says:  Of course he should accept the grant.  As long as there are arbitration clauses written into the grant contract beforehand (which is standard for a university-corporate research contract), any disputes about what can or should be published can be peacefully resolved.  Any investigator who refuses a grant with strings attached is greatly limiting their opportunity to fund better research.