Gold rushes

California passed a pure food and drink law 1 year after the Gold Rush... 

And in 189 6 (and possibly even the year before, when Crowley had attended his lectures), Ramsay had asked his class to think of themselves as medieval students of alchemy. He asked them to imagine him as the alchemist Basil Valentine as he read to them one of Valentine s discourses on alchemy in class. Ramsay and Collie both would be at the center of what, in chapter 3,1 shall call the transmutational gold rush —when academic chemists, beginning around 1904 and following Ramsay s lead, attempted to use radiation to transmute the elements and specifically saw this practice in alchemical terms. 

Howard K. The bioinformatics gold rush. Scientific American July 58-63 (2000). 

Gold veins in rocks are known as lode deposits. The principal vein is the mother lode , now a figure of speech as well as the name of one of the most famous deposits of the Californian Gold Rush. When these lodes form at relatively low temperatures and low pressures near the surface of the Earth s crust, they can become exceptionally rich in gold. Such deposits can be found in Colorado and Nevada, and became known in the nineteenth century by the Spanish word for prosperity bonanza, a term now redolent with the mythology of the Wild West. 

Savage, K.S., Bird, D.K. and Ashley, R.P. (2000) Legacy of the California gold rush environmental geochemistry of arsenic in the southern Mother Lode Gold District. International Geology Review, 42(5), 385-415. 

The gold rush in clinical trials has to stop, and prospective randomized clinical trials with a central data registry must be conducted, Only if current standards for clinical trials are met, will cell therapy be taken seriously by a large, and of course, skeptical community. Creating a consensus for preclinical and clinical data standards and conducting the studies would enable... 

We may wonder whether, following today s gold rush in homogeneous catalysis, silver will be the next in line ... 

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