Peter, I am happy to post on this thread. I think that the misunderstanding came more from my style and possibly some preconcieved notions. I have been posting on SI for a year or two and on other forums since 1992. Over the years I had received quite a bit of feedback and most of it has been positive. The feedback has been on the threads themselves and via private E-Mail.
I post more on SI because it is very flexible and well organized. It allows for hypertext links and replies are numbered and accessable via a simple click, as is a listing of posts within a thread, including with the first few lines. Moreover, it is searchable.
What seems like a large number of posts on a new thread is actually a small number compared to the Ligand thread. It has its regulars, but it has also attracted a wide range of posters as well as a significant readership (this estimate is based in part by E-Mailers who never post, and SI's more recent policy of charging to join - and therefore post).
As a result of this past experience, I tend to do several things that actually increases the number of posts, but makes it easier on the readers. I like to break posts up into subtopics so additional posters can address single topics and the responses are automatically linked. The structure of SI allows these posts to be linked by merely clicking on the number next to the author's name.
I also tend to back up my comments with press releases or articles. I have a scientific background and its quite easy to evolve into a jaron filled description (as seen in many of the early posts on this thread) that only a tiny fraction of the readership understands (not much more than the handfull of regular contributors). Therefore I add press releases or on-line articles that have been written for the general public.
Since the readership is varied, I also tend to use abstracts or references for those who want to delve into the science more.
Because I have been doing this for awhile, I have quite a few historical documents (most of which is LGND) and I tend to bring these back because most readers no longer have access because they don't save the articles and many archives don't go back that far.
I believe our first exchange came from a listing of LGND scientists and consultants as well as the number of their pulications as listed in Medline. Your comments indicated that most scientific consultantships were more for PR than substance and had little to do with the company's ownership. While that may be the case for some, it is not for LGND. Their two core technologies come from National Academy scientists (Ron Evans and Jim Darnell). The licenses are exclusive and involved a significant amount of stock, and LGND certainly has first rights of refusal for commercializing the discoveries (and LGND currently has 130 issued patents with over 200 pending and I can assure you that they don't only come from LGND employees - as I have noted elesewhere, and possibly on this thread, I have no formal ties to LGND although they do have rights to some of my patents). I uploaded the original agreements or portion of SEC documents, which you seemed to find excessive.
You then posed a number of clinical questions and I again broke my responses into short but separate posts. This seemed to have cause you to come unglued, based upon some rather childish responses. I was also taken aback by your ownership claims. SI and most poster know that the key to a viable board is content and most good boards are dependent on many contributors who put in a good deal of time, if their posts have content. You're threats to request removal of the board or posts on the board seemed to have lost sight of the intent of these boards which is to provide information and a forum to discuss such information. I really couldn't understand why you thought you had any say over anything anyone else posted on this thread or any other.
I hope the above clarifies my position. I have stated in the past that most complainers about my post actually focus much more on quantity than quality which is a major minus in many threads on this board and most threads on other boards.
I am happy to continue posting on this thread or any other that I deem as approriate, and poster are free to take exception to anything I put up. I think that a thread focusing on uderlying technolgy is most approriate for a Biotech board and that is much more my area of expertise than financial aspects.
Feel free to call me Henry as most other poster do. However, if you feel more comfortable using my surname, Dr. Niman would be more appropriate. I took my Ph.D. in Biochemistry from USC in 1978.
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