Selbst NRW-Ministerpräsident Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU), der Sch. im August vergangenen Jahres auf einer Ruhrgebietstour besuchte, ließ sich beeindrucken: Wenn es gelänge, die Potenziale in der Region zu bündeln, "werden wir bald viele Schermers erleben", vernahmen Anwesenden damals aus dem Munde des Ministerpräsidenten. Die Ermittler wundert es überhaupt nicht, wie schnell man auf die dubiosen Professoren hereingefallen ist: "Solche Leute umgeben sich halt gern mit wichtigen Personen."

We would find something through drug discovery that performed a useful function, but lacked effective models of how these interventions worked. Many of these drugs turned out to be crude tools with unanticipated side effects. We are now beginning to understand biology as a set of information processes, and we’re developing realistic models of how disease and aging progress.

Lilly allegedly gave kickbacks to doctors and improperly promoted the drug to nursing homes as a sedative, Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath said in a complaint filed March 7 in state court in Helena. He claimed Lilly, the world's biggest maker of psychiatric drugs, bought off a "disgruntled'' sales director to keep him from disclosing its marketing practices.

Lilly created a 280-person sales force "to promote Zyprexa exclusively for off-label uses, specifically for long term care facilities to maximize off-label use of Zyprexa sales" for the elderly, Montana said in its complaint.