Medical sciences is a tricky business. The people who work in the field are genuinely trying to understand and improve human life. It is a thankless job at almost any level. You earn little money and generally little prestige. These people do it because they want to help. All the while, the general public is waiting to crucify you.
Also, I'm getting tired of the "on the payroll of big pharma" thing. Every research group I've ever been associated with has been funded by almost any big pharma company you can think of. We also receive heavy funding from various provincial and federal government agencies. Not once has ANYONE outside of the research group told us what to report. It just doesn't happen like that. If these companies/agencies didn't give us money for our work, who would? Based on the crap I've seen Mikey write over the years I don't think he'd be one to cut a cheque to a research group.
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