Comment Re:That's a question (Score 1) 443
Alternatively, they were a startup with dubious research who over-promised on what their product could do (par for the course for startups) and were bought up by a big company who later realized they'd either been bamboozled or the cure that blinded them with dollar signs simply didn't work. Just because there were published articles doesn't mean they were totally legit or that their cure was very effective. Foul play or ill intentions don't even have to be involved, this medical research stuff is hard. What matters is if the research survives scrutiny over time and can be replicated and verified by others. It could simply be that more research was done internally and it was dropped when it didn't pan out like they'd hoped. Occam's razor isn't 100% clear-cut in this case as big corporations inherently behave like sociopaths, but it isn't obvious to me that "evil corporate conspiracy" is the most logical conclusion to jump to either.