A late start to the week. A few articles from this week's issue of C&EN:
- Cover story is from the Business Department on the Pharma Week in Review
- Lisa Jarvis writes on the many new drugs in 2015 (acronym-of-the-moment: PRV)
- Rick Mullin covers the life sciences scene in Boston.
- Rick also talks about our favorite new life sciences entrepreneur of 2015, Martin Shkreli.
- Interesting profile of Chris Cahill, chemistry professor and a policy fellow at the Department of State for a year by Jessica Morrison.
- Guest article by Robin D. Rogers on "Eliminating The Need For Chemistry"
Ironically, the article by Robin D. Rogers will result in the increased use of synthetic blood pressure medication, some of which will be taken with water from bottles not produced from biomass. This will make Jenny McCarthy weep.
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Great catch. That's a sort of goofy statement.
DeleteInteresting perspective by Robin D. Rogers. The color of his jacket was even crimson, the official color of McGill. I still have some friends up there from a while back, who are excellent (unemployed) chemists, after yet more industry pulled out of Canada.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Rogers was also plugging his own research program, but he does have a point: chemists are herd animals and most loathe to do anything outside of the box. One example from today was the absence of chemists when it came to the growing scandal in the Exxon-Mobil cover-up of previous knowledge of global warming, which now appears to have its origins back in the 1970s.