VC Calls Academic Science Fraudulent, Stanford Prof Fires Back on Industry Bias
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-07-23
Venture capitalist Sarah Cone recently claimed that the industry no longer trusts academic science due to widespread fraud and replication failures, arguing for a decoupling of science from academia.
This sparked a sharp rebuttal from Stanford Professor Anshul Kundaje, who sarcastically highlighted the irony of assuming VC-funded industry research is inherently more trustworthy, pointing out the severe biases driven by commercial interests in the corporate sector.
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