On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:05:03 -0400, Walter Bushell
wrote:

[...]
But ah, with the amount of money the drug companies can invest in
bribes, winks of job offers and so on, can we really trust the
government to objectively test drugs?

Of course not. We can't trust the government to get the freakin' mail
delivered on time. The government is the problem, not the solution. We
can thank the government for pushing us down the low-fat/high-carb
road to begin with. And they're *still* pushing it!

But we *can* trust in the Scientific Method.

What we need is transparency (especially when public funds are being
used).

And laws that call for a trip to the slammer for those "scientists"
who intentionally falsify/hide data. And ditto the corporate officers
and government officials who allow it.

Maybe a kind of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (regarding financial disclosures),
but for scientific claims, etc.

--
Dogman

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty
about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman