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23. For a related analysis in the context of public health research, see Katherine A. McComas, “The Role of Trust in Health Communication and the Effect of Conflicts of Interest Among Scientists,” Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 67 (2008): 428n, available at link #13.
24. Robert C. Brooks, Corruption in American Politics and Life (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910), 93.
25. Dennis F. Thompson, Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995), 124.
26. I don’t mean to suggest that this is an easy question to answer. This is the lesson of Peter Morgan and Glenn Reynolds’s powerful book, The Appearance of Impropriety (New York: Free Press, 1997). In example after example, Morgan and Reynolds demonstrate the political system’s inability to distinguish real from fabricated political conflicts. This problem will only grow as the political environment becomes more poisonous. I don’t pretend to offer any solution to bad faith, though as I emphasize in “Against Transparency” (New Republic, Oct. 9, 2009), the most obvious solution is to eliminate the suggestion that there may be a conflict.
27. Florence T. Bourgeois, Srinivas Murthy, and Kenneth D. Mandl, “Outcome Reporting Among Drug Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov,” Annals of Internal Medicine 153 no. 3 (Aug. 3, 2010): 158–66, 159, available at link #14.
28. Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (forthcoming, New York: Penguin Press, 2011), 28.
29. Top 1000 Sites—DoubleClick Ad Planner, available at link #15. The $150 million is calculated as follows: $1 per thousand page views, an estimated fourteen billion page views per month, times twelve months is at least $150 million.
30. Interview with author, May 4, 2007.
31. “Therefore I Travel, Company Profile of Lonely Planet,” Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet, available at link #16.
32. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, vol. 1, ed. Edwin Cannan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 477 (book IV, chapter II: “Of Restraints upon the Importation from foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home”).
Chapter 3. 1 + 1 =
1. Paul Krugman, “Boiling the Frog,” New York Times, July 13, 2009, at A19.
Part II. Tells
1. Marc J. Hetherington, Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005), 9.
Chapter 4. Why Don’t We Have Free Markets?
1. Karl Weber, ed., Food, Inc.: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—and What You Can Do About It (New York: Public Affairs Press, 2009), 228–29; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Diabetes Fact Sheet (2007), 10–11, available at link #17.
2. Neil H. White, “Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Rates Growing Rapidly Among Children,” Washington University in St. Louis (website), Mar. 11, 2005, available at link #18 (“In 1985, experts estimated that about 1 to 2 percent of children with diabetes had Type 2”).
3. Thomas Frieden, William Dietz, and Janet Collins, “Reducing Childhood Obesity Through Policy Changes: Acting Now to Prevent Obesity,” Health Affairs 29, no. 3 (2010): 357–63, cited in Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar, Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic: How the Health Care Reform Law Will Help Prevent and Reduce Obesity, Center for American Progress, 2010, 1.
4. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Diabetes Fact Sheet 8 (2007).
5. Whelan, Russell, and Sekhar, “Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic.”
6. Heidi Adams, “Obesity in America: One Nation, Overweight,” Oct. 31, 2008, available at link #19. See also “Reason for Increase in Number of Children with Type 2 Diabetes,” MSN Health Network, July 28, 2008, available at link #20. See also “Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents,” Consensus Statement, Diabetes Care 23, no. 3 (2000): 381