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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (16349)	4/8/2010 6:26:03 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

"The bill allows the withholding of funding to any institution where a researcher publishes findings not “within the bounds of and entirely consistent with the evidence,” a vague authorization that creates a tremendous tool that can be used to ensure self-censorship and conformity with bureaucratic preferences." That's been one of my big worries not about this legislation in particular but government control of health care best practices, in general. I was reading a blog post yesterday from one of the doctors who write about the cholesterol myth and how much difficulty he gets being published. First, you have the drug company funding. Then you have the general resistance in many fields to concluding anything that goes against "what everyone knows," of not following the leader. Having watched over the years the bad advice being officially pushed on nutrition, the though of greater censorship is, indeed, disconcerting.