Posted by bassman on November 4, 2006, at 17:42:42
In reply to Hey man, don't knock accidental discovery » linkadge, posted by madeline on November 4, 2006, at 16:55:35
I couldn't agree more. Gleevec was the poster child for knowing what you are doing in drug design-but a real exception. Now the main method is to make literally 100's of thousands of compounds a DAY and screen them for activity (CombiChem). Never in the history of pharmaceutical science have so many useless drugs been synthesized. The odd thing is that "breakthroughs" are methods that make MORE useless compounds per day. Odd field. :>}
I have this feeling that one day it will be discovered that the neurotransmitter hypothesis is just plain wrong and that AD's do something else that sometimes reduces depression. Right now, you probably could get burned at the stake in medical circles by suggesting such heresy.
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