Absurd - please link to disclosures of deliberation and negotiation times for BP biotech decisions. It's been my experience that they are announced when completed, but not when begun. When abandoned, it is rarely public knowledge.
This is the same BIIB brain trust who subsequently went w/more AD Plaque trials, which burned a lot of people including study patients (I know one), stock holders and a few recently unemployed top BIIB managers. Friggen brilliant reasoning.