Except that they are both potent protease inhibitors.

Other than that, you mean?

Why would a parasite drug have protease inhibition properties? Parasites don’t have protease enzymes

That’s why it was spectacularly interesting to begin with!

Why would an anti parasitic drug exhibit any measurable response? Yet, it did.

That is when I realized that science was, if not dead, then severely wounded.

No interest at all, from the “scientific” people.

Now, it turns out we probably know why; it happened to (probably accidentally) be a potent protease inhibitors - and that happened to be important.

We could have found this out a year ago, and begun exploiting this attack vector.

But, no: everyone who found this interesting and worthy of further study was derided and threatened with job losses.

What a shit-show.