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I don't think it's that simple. Bear in mind that whilst one may say that the US healthcare system, including a good deal of research, is corrupted by financial

I don't think it's that simple. Bear in mind that whilst one may say that the US healthcare system, including a good deal of research, is corrupted by financial interests, that is not true either (a) universally in the US - there is still government funded research, or (b) overseas, where the norm in most industrialized societies is socialized medicine, with a lot of medical research being publicly funded without the ability to sell a profitable remedy being the prime motivator.

Lawtonfogle 12y ago
Even government funded research becomes corrupted. Special interest groups, inconvenient results giving lesser weight, laws and policy limiting what can be studied, manipulation of results to portray a pre-determined narrative. My goto example is the NISVS 2010 where a man being forced to have sex but not being forcefully penetrate was defined to not be rape but only sexual assault, and then the summary section showing how few men were raped (while leaving the particular definition of rape buried in the details). This same corruption is all the harder to see as you deal with studies moving towards biology and neurology as the base level of knowledge needed to understand a given paper to the same degree increases (per my own experiences and those of others I've talked to).