Intellectual dishonesty is certainly an epidemic in the scientific community.  I do believe the article touches on that a little bit in that it reports that corporate interests repeatedly fail to show connections between sugar and obesity in their studies whereas independent researchers with no vested interests show a clear link.  We've seen it happen before with the tobacco industry, it's only a matter of time before the evidence mounts high enough against these other corrupt entities that something more is done. It can't happen soon enough in my opinion.