&quot;Should congressional testimony and expert witnesses be banned and private funding of research prohibited? Eliminating private funding will leave research completely in public funding’s hands. It will not eliminate the bias; it will simply tilt it in the direction of the government.&quot;<p>This is definitely a fact.. look how long it took for the lipid theory to be seriously challenged... years of research in support of what the government would fund.  The food pyrimid is probably the best example of the results of this.<p>As long as business and politics are so intertwined, putting government in charge isn&#x27;t a viable solution in and of itself.  It would be nice to see some efforts put towards pure&#x2F;directed research... Unfortunately that&#x27;s a hard sell to a lot of people who simply don&#x27;t see the value.