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you enjoy it.

Bias affects every decision we make, whether intentional or not, and medicines no exception.

Sometimes these conflicts of interest are obvious. More often, they're hidden. But they all

have the potential to influence our health from recommendations on how much

sugar we should eat. There are those who think that actually you should have nothing to do with

industry and that you should be independent scientists who are doing research in the area of food

and nutrition if it's in my case, but you don't actually have any links with

industry at all. They think if you do have links with industry, if you take research money from

industry, then you are somehow a spokesperson, a defender of them. I think that's fundamentally

wrong. To how much we should pay for alcohol? I was fascinated that the prime minister said that

sometimes in politics you had to do the right thing

rather than the popular thing. Who was it unpopular with? Well, it was certainly unpopular with the

drinks industry, and I'm very sure that they were lobbying extremely hard. To the advice scientists

offer government. There was a real tension there, and I certainly for a month or so found myself trying to see whether I could actually serve both masters, the science and the government.

So far in this series we've examined the impact that conflict of interest can have on research, expert committees, key opinion leaders, GPs and patient groups.

And in this final program,

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