Here's a problem I'm having with these discussions: first of all, none of the people involved - like you - are qualified to make a judgement one way or another.

Here's a problem I'm having with these discussions: first of all, none of the people involved - like you - are qualified to make a judgement one way or another. What we're left with is just straight up following the rules of scientific inquiry. So, just going at it from that perspective: you're clearly in the wrong. Anyone who might have information that helps solve a problem should be able to come forward. Anyone who wants to stop that is a problem. As for your skepticism - disparaging credentialed scientists as conspiracy theorists - you also have that ass-backwards. In any scientific discussion, it's the people who have vested interests (financial, institutional, personal) who you most need to be skeptical of. Satoshi Omura has nothing to gain from this, but the pharmaceutical companies definitely do. So what are you trying to do here?