Sounds like academic research publications. Sure, that will totally be a key step toward cancer therapy or better biofuels (realistically, the PI gets his jollies by shoving aldehyde groups onto random molecules)
Oh, you mean like the guys who tried to inject vulnerabilities into the linux kernel and got their entire university on Greg Kroah-Hartman's shit list? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670