I share some of your skepticism, but I think this particular paper is worth a little less cynicism. It’s true that statistical analysis has always helped inform

I share some of your skepticism, but I think this particular paper is worth a little less cynicism. It’s true that statistical analysis has always helped inform medicinal chemistry efforts. They used to be called QSAR ;) What’s different here is the scale of information that was processed. As you point out the computational power and therefore the algorithms we can apply has enabled different experiments which I very much hope will yield better and more abundant medicines. Papers like this are a sign of these methods bearing fruit!