We may not have any researcher without financial tie from drug companies.

It is certain that researchers must be free from any ties to give us something true. No matter it is done earlier or afterward, JAMA has proved to us the principles that should be guarded. Check: "Medical Journal Says It Was Again Misled".

The problem is not about whether JAMA etc. can avoid making such mistakes. Worst of all, we may not have any researchers without some forms of ties.

Perhaps we have too many universities and research units and there are too few non-business foundation or government-supporting fund to keep them alive.

As an outsider, I am not sure whether any research really need so much money or we need so many researching units that seems to be overlapping each other's work. Yes, there is competition. Competition for glory and money will make things ugly.

If we spend time to check those great findings that were beneficial to our lives, we might realize that the best researchers did not have any fortune at all. Therefore, we can assume that great works are not related to money and money would not be a factor of success in research.

The previous problem with the Korean scientist is certainly a victim of greedy. A long time ago, when two scientists fought for the first discovery of Aids, I asked a friend who was a doctor about the reason for such argument. He told me that when one got famous with new discovery, he/she might have millions funding and the best thing of all was just a few reports within certain months or years would be fine and no auditing would be enforced about how those millions were spent.

This is just another example of the vice of money. Have our civilization moving in the wrong direction? Perhaps it is time for us to think whether a kind of revolution will be needed.

Remember that we already suffer from huge medical bills. We should not blame the doctors; they just need money as we do. We should not blame the governments; they cannot support the unlimited budget of medication. So what should we do?