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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruce Olsten who wrote (7131)	4/16/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23519

Bruce, Yes, I agree. I too suspect some type of psychopathology is at work here, but my DSM is packed away somewhere ... VLAD has stated that that he suspects some of the people posting negative comments here are really short sellers masquerading as disgruntled longs. My my. Maybe he ought to start a private forum where members are required to provide brokerage account statements to prove that they really hold shares, before being allowed to post. The conspiracy goes even further, to the ED-support threads and the PFE-stock threads. A grand cabal organized to drive VVUS stock price into the ground. And he mentioned that things are "even worse" on the YHOO thread. Well, i've spend a lot of time over there in the past month. It really is a much better thread than this one for the following reason. There is ONE thread, on which bulls and bears exchange their facts and opinions. It is not segregated into two threads, bull and bear, as is the case here. Over on the YHOO thread, the bulls are interested in hearing what the bears say, and vice versa. And William Harmond has patiently warned innumerable short sellers that they may well get burned. And he very rarely deviates from an extremely civil tone of discourse. Here, it's different. It's "don't like it, LEAVE." If someone expresses skepticism about the company, VLAD immediately jumps in and tells them to sell their shares, and move over to another forum. He doesn't want to hear it. He sunk a lot of money into a stock that's going down, and he just wants to hear optimistic views about VVUS. Operative theory seems to be this: If enough people here believe VVUS will rise, it will. David