You don’t know who Zimmer works with. You don’t know if 2.5 was a lump sum payment or several payments to companies they are working with. The 2.5 is a line item. There is no proof of an indirect payment of any kind. Sonny isn’t that rich. And he was collecting checks from micro port for their hip system in 2017, and guess who also uses vitamin E stabilized polyethylene liner? He still gets paid consulting fees to this day from micro port. You can make connections all day long to spin a narrative, the difference is you actually have proof of payment from microport for the design of a hip system that uses the same thing just a different brand. And if your argument is why didn’t they use microport in that study, if you wanted to stay independent you wouldn’t be using the product of a company that pays the ceo of one of the companies you’re testing.
You can do this all day with any of them.