This has been playing on my mind for some time now. Why would...

This has been playing on my mind for some time now. Why would Thermo Fisher want to keep their name out of this? I understand that the big fish(er) would not want the little fish to piggy back off their name and reputation but this seems a little excessive.

Are they protecting their reputation from an unproven science? Or is there something going on behind the scenes? They have put a lot of money into this so they would hate for it to be largely publicised only for the science to fail and their money be wasted and hurt their reputation. Time will tell…