RESEARCH CHEMIST DEREK LOWE is Fisking a New York Times editorial on drugs. “So, your editorial bungles its key scientific and legal points. Then you follow that up by lecturing academic and industrial researchers who actually know what they’re talking about. . . . Well, speaking as a member of the vaunted American research establishment, I find it irritating to be harangued by the New York Times about a subject you’ve clearly made little attempt to understand.”