Talk about arbitrary, on the pharmaceutical front some very revealing and somewhat forgotten info seems to be in the comments:
>anon the II says:
19 February, 2021 at 1:03 pm
>About 27 years ago, a little company that I worked for was going through another transmutation in order to survive. We became a high-throughput screening/combinatorial chemistry company. The CEO told a story about how, by the time anyone figured out that we didn’t know what we were doing, we might actually figure out what we were doing. I volunteered to be the technical lead on the combi-chem side. Anyhow, we managed to get bought by Lilly in 1994 and shortly afterwards, we got a visit from Bryan Malloy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Molloy), the inventor of Prozac, who came down to see what his company had purchased. I met with Bryan and we had a lovely chat. But, he let me know that he thought that what we were doing was no better than “pissing in the wind”.
>I guess this means that he was doing much the same.
>anon the II says: 19 February, 2021 at 1:03 pm
>About 27 years ago, a little company that I worked for was going through another transmutation in order to survive. We became a high-throughput screening/combinatorial chemistry company. The CEO told a story about how, by the time anyone figured out that we didn’t know what we were doing, we might actually figure out what we were doing. I volunteered to be the technical lead on the combi-chem side. Anyhow, we managed to get bought by Lilly in 1994 and shortly afterwards, we got a visit from Bryan Malloy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Molloy), the inventor of Prozac, who came down to see what his company had purchased. I met with Bryan and we had a lovely chat. But, he let me know that he thought that what we were doing was no better than “pissing in the wind”.
>I guess this means that he was doing much the same.