Let's study if alcohol drinking is actually good for you, because a lot of observational

data says if you drink one to two drinks a day, it's actually pretty healthy, but we don't

actually have any data, so let's get the data.

So the NIH goes to this doctor, Dr. Mukammal, and he immediately goes to all the alcoholic

industry and tries to get funding for this.

And of course, you don't want the alcohol industry, writing a paper to see if drinking alcohol

is good for you.

Like you don't have to be that smart to understand that you want an unbiased trial of this.

And yet here he is trying to get millions of dollars, and they have email after email

of the alcohol industry people saying, well, you should do it like this, you should do

it like this.

Well, if you do it like this, it'll look bad for us, so you shouldn't do it.

And this lead investigator saying, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right, please give

me money.

It's like, okay, but you know, you've biased the trial so badly right from the start that

the NIH had to actually pull the funding and stop the study.

So this is all of these stories are like within the last six months.

So this is all the ways that we got into this mess, which is the financial conflicts of

interest in medicine.

And unfortunately, it's basically corrupting all of medicine and what we do.

So there's lots of ways.

The first way that most of us are very familiar with is that they just pay you straight out.

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