Medicine: 10 panelists in painkiller vote had ties to makers

Stories like this are so tiresome. While it'd certainly be nice if medical science and the drug industry weren't connected in a way that created the potential for such conflicts of interest, the last line of the story sums up the whole situation rather well:

Because drug companies fund many studies, it is not unusual for researchers to have ties to manufacturers, although some have questioned the practice.

So ho hum. Yet the headline obviously implies otherwise. Hurray for a purposefully misled public in the spirit of journalistic capitalistic depravity! Hip Hip Hurray!