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Biotech / Medical : VISX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Phil who wrote (1232)	7/27/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: Robert G. Harrell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1754

Phil, You should have stated your bias up front here as you did on your web page. <<Disclaimer: I AM BIASED. My personal research has convinced me that Intacs are an excellent product. I am a supporter of the company and do have a long term commitment to my stock ownership in KeraVision. >> According to the IR person I talked to at LVCI, this is old news. It was hardly scientific. Rather it was purely anecdotal and admitted at the end of the article that there was no data about the night vision of the patients cited before surgery. In fact, the article doesn't even mention whether the procedure was PRK or LASIK. The LVCI rep said that most of the halo/ night vision problems have been corrected by changing the laser profile. They also know the kinds of eye conditions that will have halo problems after surgery and can advise the prospective patient accordingly. The case for Keravision can be made without dragging up weak popular press articles about laser correction surgery. There is room for both procedures. I wish you well with your investments and admire your efforts to support them. Bob

To: Phil who wrote (1232)	7/27/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: Gullapalli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1754

Phil: Are you shorting VISX and like stocks?

To: Phil who wrote (1232)	7/29/1999 7:49:00 PM
From: Angler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1754

Phil: I am taking exception to your broad statement that the "Germans are second to none when it comes to solid science". Science covers a wide spectrum of subject matter; however, IMO U.S. "Medical science" is most likely the most advanced and carefully produced in the world thanks mainly to our participation in military wars ongoing involving body repair and a meticulous FDA (which took ages it seemed to okay Viagra later approved in Europe). Having relatives and acquaintances in Germany who have undergone certain surgeries that I personally have undergone here in the U.S., one set being bi-lateral hip implants, in comparison I am certainly glad to have had my operations done in the good old USofA. Angler

To: Phil who wrote (1232)	8/5/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: capitalistbeatnik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1754

OK Phillip Whitaker, Now you are scaring patients, and while I could give a damn whether KERA goes up or down, it does bother me that you are using junk science and hysteria to scare good people. The BBC study involved RK and PRK and black box lasers. There is NO EVIDENCE that VISX lasers are used. Secondly, surgical eyes is mostly RK and PRK and a few people who obviously had lousy surgeons. If this were a big problem there would obvioulsy be more complaints among the over million people who have had the procedure done. I will be contacting VISX IR and notifying them that you are trying to scare people away from a safe and effective procedure in a futile attempt to bolster a competitors stock. And as far as the effectiveness studies on your home built web page, that is right out of the KERA propaganda machine. There is no double blind study to indicate that Intacs are superior to LASIK. NONE. As long as you are all over the web spreading lies to hype KERA I will dog you until you start telling the truth.