This really isn't true, certainly not as a blanket statement. What Ioannidis is saying is that profit motivates pharma research. This is in a sense a tautology

This really isn't true, certainly not as a blanket statement. What Ioannidis is saying is that profit motivates pharma research. This is in a sense a tautology. Even then, Pharma do fund trials initiated by investigators not affiliated with the company.