> why should the public pay for safety testing of products? Because private companies have strong counter-incentives to ignore or obfuscate safety issues with

> why should the public pay for safety testing of products? Because private companies have strong counter-incentives to ignore or obfuscate safety issues with their products? Counter-incentives that have been shown repeatedly to have caused companies to lie, cheat, steal, and corrupt the scientific, political, and social processes in place to prevent unsafe products from being sold to the public?