"Maybe...being a scientific company perhaps, there's a lack of understanding of things like tenses in the English langauge. If you look at the PP slides from San Diego, either the deleted or corrected one...it doesn't matter.  On both versions it says the company "has inintiated clinical trials" for BETonMACE, BETonRENAL and Fabry's Disease....

....Fabry's disease though, there's not even any information available that I can find.....I don't know how you can say a trial has been initiated when there hasn't even been a protocol published yet...."

Aside from "tense" there is also meaning.  What does it mean to say "has initiated clinical trials"?

"Initiate" just means to "begin a process".  They don't have to do much at all to claim a clinical trial has been "initiated".  How about a chat over coffee?  They don't need to have a "protocol published".

PS.  I was a science major.