John Stossel on Corporate Money in Science

Lately, activists have become obsessed with
“conflict of interest” in science—any trace of corporate money must
poison honest medical research. Obamacare includes a rule called
the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which orders companies that
make medical products to disclose even bagels they serve doctors
and anything valued above $10.

But rules like these only make life more difficult for doctors,
and for patients who want cures, argues John Stossel. Markets do
not automatically taint science. As with every other service the
market provides, it is the anti-capitalist attitude that does more
harm.

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