Can you imagine the "paper" on the subject?
"Do yacht masts, attract lightning, repel lightning, or are ambivalent to lightning), (should all sailors do away with "masts" and just use sails alone??)
Besides, no "drug company" could see any profit in funding any such scientific study, and with out funding, no study! And governments seem more interested in funding studies on things like “how many times a minute does a fly in season beat its wings, and the overall effect that any variation has on the Ice flows in Antarctica”.
(I’m not REALLY cynical, am I ????)