> If your government is in such bad shape you have far bigger problems than keeping track of drug trials.

I agree with the parent but I also agree with this, at the very least with the US government. If you think it's not in bad shape then you're living in a fantasy. All it takes is somebody with an agenda to start changing facts from being science based to being what you personally believe in or what corporations want. One such example of this is Pruitt at the EPA.