yes, Virginia, the drug companies do have a policy of secret payoffs to researchers.

A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given Congressional investigators.

At some point, we need to start throwing both the people who took, and the people who made, the payments in jail.