Pssst, I'll let you in on a secret...government is in industry's pocket, too.

Unfortunately, any group with an agenda can co-opt the scientific process to further their agenda. Fringe groups with wacko ideas rarely have the money to sponsor big name studies, though. Large corporations do have the financial muscle. Is it any wonder that the vast majority of industry funded research tends to produce results favorable to that industry?

Or look at the BPA literature that government committees look at, like the National Toxicology Program. They'll cherry pick a handful of articles out of hundreds that are available. Obviously, it's more complicated than that, but that's basically what it boils down to and results in what is often far from the consensus of the experts in a field.

Or the latest recommendation by the--Institute of Medicine, was it?--on re-evaluating the recommended amounts of Vitamin D not long ago. The suggestions were far short of what experts in the field recommend nowadays because they took an extremely narrow view of vitamin D and restricted it solely to bone health and ignored all the more recent research on Vitamin D's role in heart disease, cancer, infectious diseases, etc.

So, "government" is often not the best place to search for the consensus understanding of any given topic.