The way research is done at companies like these has really changed - nowadays it's all mergers & acquisitions, look in Wikipedia at just how many companies AZ

The way research is done at companies like these has really changed - nowadays it's all mergers & acquisitions, look in Wikipedia at just how many companies AZ has acquired since the merger, it wasn't like that before the 1990s. These companies are knowledge brokers and what research is done is outsourced to contract research organizations. Back then, everything was done in-house. The Frythe employed people like Joseph Chatt and James Black. You don't have central research like that any longer, except at Facebook/Amazon/Google/Microsoft, and that's a problem. They can sell us ads but will not come up with the next antibiotic when the present ones have become useless.