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

To: Henry Niman who wrote (14941)	12/26/2004 5:37:42 PM
From: scaram(o)uche	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 52153

Territory to be guarded? Whoa, you take investment-related exchanges straight from weird territory...... there's value here, and it can be diverted to recombinomics. Henry, you've accused me in public and out of the blue of being Ron/Courtney/Scott/et al. and of insider trading in ARIA. You are acknowledged as THE biopumper (ligand), and you've pumped your websites endlessly in every forum that will have you. I simply say "shoo, back to the thread of interest" and I'm protecting my territory??? Yeah, right. >> The SARS in Vancouver was actually contamination at the Winnipeg labs << Duh! Here's the sequence of events........ 1. cluster of disease, definitely not SARS-like; 2. press sensationalizes the isolates (lab contaminant), and you sensationalize the press; 3. CDC scientists say "wait a minute, there's something not quite right here, and we're not willing to call Vancouver a SARS event"; 4. you spend a great deal of cyberspace, declaring that CDC is full idiots and coverup artists; 5. CDC turns out to be correct; and 6. a year later, you're here saying simply that it was a contamination error without ever acknowledging the volume of posts -- here at S.I. and elsewhere -- that demands so many apologies? >> just another personal attack << I'm commenting because that sequence of events disgusts me. And what was it about "River City" that didn't get past the Alarmist's Brain Barrier and led to this "contamination" discussion in the first place? Go back and READ the volume of embarrassing crap that you posted re. SARS........... taking shots like that at devoted scientists and epidemiologists, and not having the class or guts to go back and acknowledge such outrageous attack? The results from Winnepeg were too quick, too conclusive, too unrelated to the biology. I was assuming contamination, as the majority of experienced biologists would do. The only saving grace, Henry, re. your having made such a puking embarrassment out of S.I.? Nobody at CDC cares, as you're only some looney out in cyberspace, a guy who prays for global disaster and is continuously saying "told you so" when there's nothing but mustard on the floor. There's Ligand "break out" mustard on the floor, hot dog. There's SARS mustard on the floor, hot dog. If I'm protecting anything, it's an environment where HONEST people don't have to look at your stuff. If you keep trying, Henry, you'll be correct. The viruses circulating are largely similar to those of 1919 or 1949 or 1989. Our detection and evaluation techniques now give us the capacity to analyze genomes, and the "2004 window" looks scary. It is. There's nothing new about that, and there's certainly no need to focus our paranoia on flu. Lab escapees are already a factor twice with SARS, and they'll be additional concern for the future. All of your fear-mongering is sorta humorous, in the SARS/flu threads. Here, it's just sad promotion. >> If you have ever posted anything of substance regarding the flu pandemic, please post a link. I must have missed it. << Message 1275665 Message 2111807 Everyone knows that a flu pandemic is coming. My focus has been on what will stop it, not on fear-mongering. But, I even beat you to that........ Message 16321250 >> To scientists trying to find out why some flu viruses are so much more virulent than others, this is an exciting discovery. "Now, the tools are beginning to get into place that can work out what makes a virus mild, and what makes it nasty," Webster said. << Unfortunately, there will be some individuals, groups, and/or nations that will attempt to use these tools to create biological weapons.