Obesity Pill Redux

I’m getting a sense of deja vu here…a study of the effects of a new vaccine on rats seems to demonstrate that the rodents given the drug put on less weight than the control group. Which means, of course, that everyone and his tech-blogging uncle is hailing the arrival of a new drug to ‘cure’ people of this ‘disease’. Another quick-fix solution to a complicated problem – what could possibly go wrong?