In recent years, the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation's universities, the story goes, reap enormous windfalls patenting products of scientific research that have been primarily funded by taxpayers. Meanwhile, hoping for new streams of revenue from their innovations, the same universities are allowing their research — and their very principles — to become compromised by quests for profit. "But is that really the case?" Greenberg questions. "Is money really hopelessly corrupting science?"