Gavin de Becker: Everybody wants you to listen to authority

"Governments are very sophisticated, throughout history...people in power in general are in the business of saying we'll take care of it. We scare you first, so it would be the witch doctor saying: You have the snake in your soul and only these beads.. and he shakes it and he scares you and you listen and nobody says: Go and learn. Everybody wants you to listen to authority, be it the chief of the village or the king or the president...
In the case of Vioxx as an example, there were 16 very important studies done on Vioxx that were published in advance of it being put out. They were favorable. They were all written by people who worked for Merck."