Why would an anti parasitic drug exhibit any measurable response? Yet, it did.

That is when I realized that science was, if not dead, then severely wounded.

No interest at all, from the “scientific” people.

Now, it turns out we probably know why; it happened to (probably accidentally) be a potent protease inhibitors - and that happened to be important.

We could have found this out a year ago, and begun exploiting this attack vector.

But, no: everyone who found this interesting and worthy of further study was derided and threatened with job losses.

What a shit-show.