> In some cases, I've been shocked to discover that the same researchers who published these papers are now marketing their own proprietary blend of those supplements. They create both the supply and the demand.
Well, fakes aside, legitimate pharmaceutical researchers should also be expected to do this, right?
Not really, no. Once you have a compound that looks promising you then need to spend huge sums of your own money running a battery of human trials compelling enough to convince local regulators that your compound actually works and isn't incidentally harmful. Doing shoddy initial studies is just shooting yourself in the foot. Supplements are their own special area because they generally aren't regulated as pharmaceuticals.
Well, fakes aside, legitimate pharmaceutical researchers should also be expected to do this, right?