Excellent points. Just because it is financially motivated, does not mean it is false. For full disclosure, I work at a biotech company that is trying to enabl

Excellent points. Just because it is financially motivated, does not mean it is false. For full disclosure, I work at a biotech company that is trying to enable motivated groups of people to participate in interventional studies of their own collective design with quantitative endpoints. The goal is to avoid the need for financially motivated groups to finance the study. Obviously, this isn't going to work for traditional drug development, but can for nutrition and nutraceuticals.