Conflicts of interest have become more the rule than the occasional exception. Even the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) receives heavy funding from industry

A 2009 investigation by the Office of the Inspector General concluded the CDC has “a systemic lack of oversight of the ethics program”; 97 percent of disclosure forms filed by its advisors were incomplete

The editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a statement declaring that a lot of published research is unreliable at best; about half is completely false

Dr Mercola How Conflicts of Interest Has Corrupted the CDC