In a normal country, the people responsible for this would be beaten to death in the streets, and it would all be publicly broadcasted

The drug was being pushed into trials by its manufacturer, Cassava Sciences, but a group of scientists who reviewed the drug maker’s claims about Simufilam believed that it was exaggerating the potential. So they did what any reasonable person would do: They purchased short sell positions in Cassava Sciences stock

This is not what reasonable people do.