[chessplayer]

Who paid for the study?

---

Big Pharma? Wouldn’t surprise me.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Actually, the big backstory here is the researcher who faked the positive data. This guy was operative for years, had a significant position a the university he was at, pulled in a fair amount of federal grant money, and made the circuit as a hotshot researcher - all on b.s. data. This is so much more common than most would imagine.