squeezed between cherry-pickers --- the example of health care: medical service providers, pharmaceutical industry, insurances, politics with different parties often don't have the same perspective, and my feeling is that it is human nature to pick the best cherries unless you have incentives to do otherwise or are reprimanded for doing so. A good example on how policies can change or at least take some influence is the (relatively recent) evolution on Pharma: the way they are allowed to influence prescribers, how they are fined for undeclared issues, the obligation to publish research protocols, etc. Still, part of the public opinion distrusts data from the industry, as the covid vaccine issue shows (the paradox and lack of logic in it is shown by the fact that the same people count on less studied Covid medication, but this is another story)

Source author: Katharina Beyer katharina.beyer@etu.unige.ch