I find it deeply sad - we can hardly blame the poor post-grad student who posted it, but it does underline just how low the standards of "wackademia" have become (there have been other glaring examples on the forum recently). As everyone's noted, the questionnaire isn't just a bit flawed, it's nonsensical! If you look through the linked website (I did), it rapidly underlines much of what's wrong in universities today - "personalities" aren't praised for their contribution to the world's knowledge, but for how much lolly they've extracted from business interests (who will doubtless want something in exchange for those monies!)
As for "unbiased research", I doubt there is much anywhere these days, industries instead use universities to cloak their often nefarious activities with a veneer of academic respectability - here's a little quote from the website which rather sums it up......
"Dr Paul Howarth, Dalton Nuclear Institute, The University of Manchester
Paul Howarth is Director of Research at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, the University of Manchester where he is responsible for growing the University’s research capability and leading on new initiatives such as establishing the new Centre for Nuclear Energy Technology, and involvement in the National Nuclear Laboratory. With close links into nuclear industry stakeholders, UK Government and EU Commission, Paul has been involved/led new national initiatives in nuclear R&D totalling almost £40m"
Not the slightest chance of the teensiest bias there then!
