the Wrong substance, while killing research. Keystone Kops R'US

(If this plot were advanced before Y2K, one would be skeptical on the face of it.)
Having tried the certifiably unadulterated form on a coupple occasions, I've formed my own conclusions.
Puritanism + vulture capitalism ... talk about toxic substances, seemingly all converging.

SF Opera doing (Goethe's) Faust tonight, memorably. Most appropriately too, of course.