This week's least surprising story

Let me understand this: researchers who were paid by a pharmaceutical company developing a particular treatment were more likely to report positively on the drug's effects on patients.  Shocking.  And I'm not saying the relationships/reasons are totally obvious, either.  But to me, this is similar to how people who study a particular protein and, say, get the bulk of their grant money for studying that protein, are likely to publish studies stating how important protein x is.  I wrote about this back in 2008.