With all due respect to the author of this article, I think its thesis is obvious.

But it is difficult to tell the emperor that he is wearing no clothes.  The emperor, here, is the multinational corporations and their corporate states.

You wont be executed or banished for telling the truth, just ignored.  

Of course if you make a public nuisance of yourself you might be "tarred and feathered" in some way but, whatever the case, your advice will not be heeded.

Happily, as your article points out, the scientific sharing that used to be part of the definition of science as a community of truth seekers, is persistent and making a comeback through the internet (which was invented for this purpose!) in spite of corporate pressure.

Let us hope that the spirit of dispassionate and happy searching for the truth will triumph over greed and the wish to dominate others.