Since I was asking the same musical question just the other day, I wanted to refer people to this article by Matthew Herper over at Forbes, who also wants to know: where is Acomplia/rimonabant, anyway?

It's amazed me for months now that Sanofi-Aventis can get away with saying nothing at all about the prospects for their potential biggest-selling drug ever. Back when the first FDA action came, I predicted, with miserable inaccuracy, that the company would have something to say within days. It's been months, and no one knows anything more than we did back in February.

As the Forbes piece makes clear, analysts and institutional investors seem to be losing patience. I'm not sure what it is about the Sanofi corporate culture that makes this strategy seem like a good idea, but they might want to reexamine it. What might appear like calm and steadfast behavior from their perspective is starting to look, from the outside, like the actions of a company with something to hide. This is America, guys. We talk about things over here; you can't shut us up. Join the party.