My point is that just because the compound isn’t patentable, that doesn’t preclude making billions of dollars off of it. 

In short, there’s a multibillion dollar payoff for anyone correctly betting that it works. 

 Rest assured that giant pharmaceutical corporations will. 😏 

 Maybe…there are millions of compounds to test. 

 The problem is either patent, which boils down to who has a better and longer standing legal team, or scale. Either way the corporate interests have the small genius innovation contingent beat. 

 True. But this doesn’t preclude anyone from trying…just from making money off of it.