Does industry funding bias dental education and lectures? Yes, and you should assume it every time. This isn't about bad people. It's about how money works on the brain. When those calcium channel blockers like Cardizem and Procardia came up for approval in the 80s, the scientists on record supporting them had taken industry money, and the ones opposed had taken far less. The drugs turned out to be good. That's not the point. The point is that influence followed the funding regardless of how professional or educated those people were, because an exchange of money creates a debt that gets [...]