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Who Manages Unitaid? Context Behind the Lawrie-Hill conversation The Chloroquine Wars Part CIV Mathew Crawford " Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. " -Charlie Munger Apologies for the substantial background behind this article up front. The payoff is large. Like mega-Nicki Minaj large . Earlier this month, an article by author and medical and science correspondent Neville Hodgkinson circulated and created a buzz. The article leads with brief discussions of the endemic fraud and corruption in the biomedical sciences , A leading UK cancer specialist told me years ago how he was blackmailed by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund into staying silent over a fraudulent study the fund had sponsored. Published in the Lancet, the study purported to show that patients treated holistically through the Bristol Cancer Help Centre did worse than those who had only orthodox treatment. It was junk science, aimed at discrediti...