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We also use the word bias when we speak about how funding sources can bias a researcher.
Isn't this just cognitive bias on part of the researcher?
No, the term cognitive bias suggests that someone is picking actions that are not correct according to his utility function. If a person is corrupt and acts in his interests that's no cognitive bias in the sense I understand the term to be used in psychology.
I agree, it's essentially different. It has to do with misaligned goals (AKA perverse incentives), similar to the principle-agent problem and the concept of lost purposes. This is all related to the tails-come-apart phenomenon as well, in that tails-come-apart is like a statistical version of the statement "you cannot serve two masters".