Re: medical studies, etc

If the study is for a particular product then you can be assured that the study is being funded by the company that makes the product.

Some of the studies will have statements of who is performing and funding the study, and any potential conflicts.

Other than that I am not sure how to find the information.  Many companies do not want that information to made public because they have an agenda to make a study appear effective or negative.  So you have to look at a multitude of studies and see how they are designed.  Then weed through the studies to see which ones have been manipulated in some way, such as underdosing, massive overdosing, etc.  Or poorly designed studies such as the one where human cancer cells were implanted in mice skin.  Then the mice were given echinacea and the cancer cells were killed. This is a prime example of a poorly designed study.  Not only do animal studies not apply to humans, but the study did not prove anything about the effectiveness of echinacea.  Human cells implanted in mice skin are antigens.  The immune system of the mice are going to destroy these antigens regardless of whether or not they are given the echinacea.  Once you weed out the conflict of interest studies, the manipulated studies, and the poorly designed studies then you focus on the remaining studies.