perhaps it's a corollary to Zebra's Law that a reverse-merger company will kill it's original programs...
In general, such programs plainly have little or no value; however, press releases announcing reverse mergers often try to conceal this in order to save face for the management team that is getting the boot (after the merger closes).
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”