Did you know that there is a career field called "knowledge management"?
How very 1984.
One of the purposes of knowledge management systems is to "[m]anage and provide access to knowledge and information (including information about experts and colleagues)." ( https://www.apqc.org/expertise/whatisknowledgemanagement )
I can easily imagine large pharmaceutical companies using the services of knowledge management consultants and third-party technology (software and hardware) providers to keep researchers from connecting across their research areas and making advances that could decrease pharmaceutical companies' profits from their proprietary products.
It has been ten years since I discovered that the element molybdenum dramatically treats migraines, nausea/vomiting, and diarrhea (with nearly instant cures within an hour in many cases). I emailed hundreds of researchers all over the world about it. Yet my emails nearly all went unnoticed, probably shunted aside for legitimate and possibly illegitimate reasons into internet traffic queues where they disappeared.
