| ▲ | tremon 2 hours ago | |
> There's a reason the field's golden age was in the 1940s and 1950s Yes, that was because of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Penitentiary_Malari... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation I understand that certain people are salivating at the thought of a return to those times; I'm not one of them. | ||
| ▲ | smalltorch an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
>Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco would be to a bioweapon attack. There has been speculation that the experiment may have contributed to one death and at least ten illnesses. Wow. | ||
| ▲ | estearum an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Also, despite GP's dismissal of the "low-hanging fruit" hypothesis, it is obviously true that we've found the easy-to-discover drugs, and therefore drugs would get harder and harder to find. A flippant dismissal in an HN comment does not actually negate reality. | ||