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Strategies & Market Trends : Bill Wexler's Profits of DOOM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (474)	3/18/1998 6:40:00 AM
From: Ploni	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4634

This clown actually believes that the "ratio of estrone to DHEA" is somehow related to the "etiology of homosexuality" Why do you think this is not the case? This is often a controversial question, for political reasons, as gays are generally offended by suggestions that their sexual identities were determined by any abnormal (or treatable) condition. However, I have read of another study: that there was a higher incidence than expected of male homosexuals born to English women who lived through the Nazis' bombings of London, which suggested that external stresses on pregnant women could influence the sexual identities of their offspring. I was less-impressed by his "theory of evolution" that humanity occasionally experiences spikes in testosterone levels (magically?), and this is what is presently causing larger children, earlier puberty, and increased incidents of homosexuality. I think the larger children and earlier onset of puberty is a result of better diet and use of vitamins.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (474)	3/20/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: BDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4634

<I was reading up on DHEA. I've never seen such a load of pseudoscientific crap in my life.> Bill- I have been watching the rise of HEPH with some dismay. As a practitioner of traditional medicine I am becoming more discouraged all the time with the scientific illiteracy of the general public. Coupled with a distrust of institutions, the lack of understanding about what constitutes scientific evidence has allowed the rise of a wide variety of marginal therapies like DHEA. Some say that these sort of things can't hurt but they do divert an individual's resources from more productive uses. Many of them are the elderly on limited incomes. In the worst cases real harm can be done by delaying or countering truly useful therapies. While I don't know how much of a rise in testosterone one could expect to see with DHEA, I have heard of prostate cancer patients taking DHEA to feel better. They may in fact be further stimulating their cancers growth. Where I am located now I have had several patients forego proven therapies with high cure rates for "safe" herbal therapies south of the border. Enough of my rant. I was hoping that the scrutiny required of a public company would sink something like HEPH, but perhaps all those people out there buying DHEA are thinking "Hey, I can invest in this stuff now through HEPH!"

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (474)	3/21/1998 8:00:00 PM
From: Don Westermeyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4634

Bill, You short HEPH? It really does look like a major scam, right down to the association with Michael Milken' old buddy. I considered it but got scared off with the one million float that can be easily manipulated. The Biotechs are getting hyped a lot this year and there is a lot of money coming into the sector. It seems like a lot of questionable stocks are following the herd up. The stock is probably a good short as long as the price doesn't get squeezed to the moon (like ZITL did). I'm looking for more stocks to short now that the MMs have spent most of that Q1 money they received from Joe Public. Don edit - I see from other posts you are indeed short. Good luck!