Sounds like a case of poor incentives. It's easy to wag our fingers and say "well they shouldn't be doing that" but difficult to come up with a system of incent

Sounds like a case of poor incentives. It's easy to wag our fingers and say "well they shouldn't be doing that" but difficult to come up with a system of incentives that makes everyone want to do what's socially beneficial. In this case, it seems like there should be a separate organization in charge of looking for adverse events that is rewarded for finding events (instead of punished). We use some strategies like this currently when regulating the finance industry