"some promise" is very far from "anywhere close to phase I human trials", so, this is not quite that tricky :)
I think a lot of good would come out of:
(1) more awareness of Cochrane Collaboration (& donations to)
(2) prosecutors and the likes of FDA aggressively pursuing people that lead others to reject life-saving treatment, esp. if conflict of interest is present (e.g book sales)
(3) stretch -- teach high school kids basic research evaluation skills (do a search on Google Scholar, consider number of papers, sample sizes, journal quality, author credentials, citations and existence of metastudies). Some version of rough smoke-test for this kind of stuff can probably be automated.
I think a lot of good would come out of:
(1) more awareness of Cochrane Collaboration (& donations to)
(2) prosecutors and the likes of FDA aggressively pursuing people that lead others to reject life-saving treatment, esp. if conflict of interest is present (e.g book sales)
(3) stretch -- teach high school kids basic research evaluation skills (do a search on Google Scholar, consider number of papers, sample sizes, journal quality, author credentials, citations and existence of metastudies). Some version of rough smoke-test for this kind of stuff can probably be automated.