You are a researcher studying heart disease. Recently, a drug company contacts you to test their newly developed drug to see if it has an effect on the particular type of heart disease you are studying. The drug company offers to fund the research, which would greatly help you advance the knowledge in your field. You are worried that when you publish results of your tests with the drug, the fact that the manufacturer is funding the research gives your findings the appearance of a conflict of interest. How might you best mitigate this appearance?

You perform the experiments multiple times in order to validate your outcomes

You have a graduate student from your lab conduct field studies and data collection for you.

You add a disclaimer at the beginning of your publication that states where the funding for the research came from.

You decide not to do the research because you would not be able to obtain unbiased results.