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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Hank who wrote (2163)2/2/2000 9:23:00 AM
From: DanZ  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5582
 
The details of the study were not released pending publication. And yes, Hank. I'm truly a "dolt" when it comes to science and math. This explains how I earned an electrical engineering degree from one of the most difficult and prestigious engineering schools in the US. The market apparently agrees with my assessment of the business, which is more important in this case anyway. You and Wexler have apparently shorted GUMM based on a moral issue with the science. Wexler generalizes that all homeopathic remedies are snake oil and you are short, apparently because nobody has proven to you that Zicam works. This is kind of like shorting Philip Morris in the 1970s because you had a disdain for cigarette smoking or nobody proved to you that cigarette smoking was safe. Good luck. GUMM is bid at 35 on Instinet before the open. It looks like more institutions who see things differently than you are buying again.

Dan



To: Hank who wrote (2163)2/2/2000 1:42:00 PM
From: Carl R.  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 5582
 
Just curious Hank, you ridicule Dan about his knowledge of statistics. What is the extent of your knowledge of statistics? Statistically significant conclusions can be drawn from small samples, but it takes a larger magnitude of difference. If you are looking for very small differences, you need very large samples, but if you are looking for large differences much smaller samples are satisfactory.

Carl