Agreement: I Agree Body: Dear Editor I am in agreement with Addington and Godlee [1] that transparency should no longer be an optional extra. When it comes to evidence based medicine [EBM], continuing medical education [CME], public education and awareness, there is nothing I am aware of that is analogous to services such as BBC Verify. Legislation is urgently required, as a first step, to make it mandatory for industry and the commercial sector generally to declare all payments in a single, open, searchable register to the following groups: doctors, healthcare workers, scientists, parliamentarians, Royal Colleges, media centres, broadcasters…