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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (2293)	7/17/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: out_of_the_loop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

<< Don't fall in love with a stock Howie.>> Good advice to anyone, as is do not fall in love with yourself or any guru who demonstrates that he/she cannot or will not admit fallibility. <<You're trying to make the Zicam promotion sound like the launch of a real, clinically tested and effective drug.>>> It is clear that I do not believe this is a fraud and I resent that you are directly accusing two respected Ph.D. researchers and their colleagues of illegal activity without any evidence and without respect to very good explanations that have been presented to you. You call us shills and say that we are hyping, but we are here presenting logically what we believe to be the truth and we back up what we say with the data we can. Frontrunning for shorters is just as bad as longs hyping a stock and I believe that we have presented reasonable arguments with reasonable support. <<Zicam = homeopathy = quackery.>> The posts have clearly explained the difference between espousing homeopathy as a medical practice and the use of the term for labelling purposes. It has been clearly stated that Zicam is a 2% solution. Next time you are in Albertson's, Kmart, WalMart, RiteAid or one of the many stores listed in the press releases or on the zicam.com website, pick up a container of Zicam and yell "quackery!". You will only have to do it more than forty thousand times to do that once in each store stocking the product. By the time you are finished, we will all know whether or not a respected medical journal has published the study...

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (2293)	7/17/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: DanZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

Bill, <Don't fall in love with a stock Howie> More appropriately, don't fall in love with your short, Billy Boy. Your attitude of short every up tick in GUMM and add to your short position despite acceptance of Zicam by the medical community (if it occurs), demonstrates an unreasonable stubbornness that could send you and others who follow that wacky advice into bankruptcy. Go ahead Billy Boy, add that line to your immature list of cliches. I'll reiterate something that Mike M said the other day. Why anybody reads this thread other than for entertainment purposes, after you have so clearly demonstrated that you are stubborn, spiteful, unreasonable, and irrational, is beyond me, especially since those personality traits affect your trading decisions. You will never have to admit that you were wrong about GUMM. If the market takes all your money it won't matter whether you were right or wrong. Go ahead and add that statement to your list too. The scariest part is that others may have blindly followed your advice had they not seen the other side of the story. If GumTech is successful and the stock price increases beyond your wildest expectations, I'd be willing to bet that you and your alias will be long gone when those who lost money come looking for you. Instead of GumTech wasting millions of dollars on phase three clinical studies just so they can remove the word "homeopathic" from the label, why don't you spend $9.99 and squirt some Zicam up your nose the next time you feel a cold coming on. That will probably be the best investment that you ever make.