Doctors are expected to make prescriptions based solely on the interests of their patients, and it’s a big deal if they don’t. There’s not really an analogous concern in software. By all means let’s be aware of the incentives, but if Google wants to give a bunch of developers a good time as part of a strategy to get them using Kubernetes, I don’t see an issue with that.
Expectation doesn't always match reality & there's plenty of studies that show that trade shows DO impact the recommendations they make to their patients. Doctor's aren't a special class of human that has figured out how to avoid the biases that can be exploited in every other human.
