Should the FDA not approve drug studies funded by pharmaceutical companies? If that were the case, the world would be a far worse place. Of course there are drugs that gain approval that shouldn't, some of which get pulled. I am a patient currently on three psychiatric medications daily, with a history of four major depressions one of which resulted in a nearly successful suicide attempt when I was 29. I am also a 70-year-old retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist with 38 years of experience in academic and private settings. During that time, I published over 100 scientific research papers, many of which reported on the first human trials of experimental drugs later approved for general use in anesthesiology. As such, I had to get approval from our institutional review boards before beginning the studies, which when completed and written up were then anonymously reviewed by three experts before being published in major journals in my field. Even with such rigorous filtering, some fraudulent papers appear, sometimes on a major scale resulting in retractions of hundreds of publications, headlines, and resignation and firing of scientists (though criminal charges are very rare). Patients get harmed and even die as a result of these falsifications. But the balance is still much to the positive side. In the end, we assume that the great majority of people have a moral compass that points toward honesty. Otherwise, our society collapses.