> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: >> And where there is a body of scholarly research, the peer-reviewed >> scholarly literature is the most authoritative literature around. > > Can you address the issue of vested interests? If a drug company has > financed all or most of the peer-reviewed work, your argument is that > we should nevertheless reply on those studies exclusively, and not > allow high-quality mainstream media who may be pointing to problems > before anyone else does. > > Why would you place so much trust in the companies who benefit > financially, and why do you feel that it would not be an NPOV > violation? > > There is no other area of Wikipedia where we allow the people who sell > things to be our exclusive sources on whether those things are good. > > Sarah
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