"some promise" is very far from "anywhere close to phase I human trials", so, this is not quite that tricky :) I think a lot of good would come out of: (1) mo

"some promise" is very far from "anywhere close to phase I human trials", so, this is not quite that tricky :) I think a lot of good would come out of: (1) more awareness of Cochrane Collaboration (& donations to) (2) prosecutors and the likes of FDA aggressively pursuing people that lead others to reject life-saving treatment, esp. if conflict of interest is present (e.g book sales) (3) stretch -- teach high school kids basic research evaluation skills (do a search on Google Scholar, consider number of papers, sample sizes, journal quality, author credentials, citations and existence of metastudies). Some version of rough smoke-test for this kind of stuff can probably be automated.