Goldacre's message on complete transparency resonates with the new enthusiasm for openness that seems to be pervading government and academia, driven by the ready access to information made possible by the world-wide web.
And companies are starting to respond to what was primarily a movement driven by activists, students, and academia, by creating CSR departments and integrating corporate citizenship into business strategy.
Pharmaceutical companies have to make decisions on particular research areas based in part on financial considerations, but it's not so different in academia, he says: "In academia, your research is driven by funding, by what grants you can get funded, and what you can't".
Also, a global registry provides opportunity for successful partnership between worldwide academia and industry, driven by the shared goal of improving outcomes for patients with aHUS.
He lectures widely on business – "I teach serious MBA programmes at Cambridge and at Lancaster and at Auckland," he says, but his attachment to academia looks to be partly driven by nursing an old sore, rather than pure altruism.
Driven by both insecurity and pride, the government and academia have pursued Nobel prizes for scientists and writers with such intensity that all the analysis and prognostication begin to look like elements of a state campaign — which, in fact, they are.
This is coherent with the real situation of CCS as its implementation is largely driven by the attitude of the stakeholders in government, industry and academia.
The increase in job opportunities is also being driven by a change in how bioinformatics is perceived in industry and academia.
