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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazlo Pierce who wrote (7771)	4/24/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: Hank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

ZONA shills try to mislead the ill informed public once again by trying to make them believe that Vasomax is as efficacious as Viagra. "More importantly, says Ferguson, is that new analysis suggests that if Vasomax is analyzed for successful attempts, rather than the survey, the number approaches 50% efficacy. That means men were successful half of the time they attempted to have sex, which correlates to Pfizer's Viagra. "When you looked at successful attempts, it far exceeded what we expected," says the consultant. "Viagra data were no different. It's improvement in our understanding of Vasomax. It appears that Vasomax is not as weak relative to Viagra as previously thought." He cautioned that there have been no head-to-head studies of the two impotence drugs." If you go to the Viagra home page at www.viagra.com and review the clinical data, you will see that the efficacy of Viagra is roughly 50% on average IF you subtract out the placebo effect. Here, ZONA shills are claiming that when you "rework" the numbers on Vasomax, the efficacy approaches 50%. Yet this value INCLUDES those responses that can be attributed to the placebo effect. If you subtract the placebo effect, the claimed efficacy value falls to 34%. That's still a long way off from 50% no matter how you "rework" the numbers. In order for Vasomax to be as efficacious as Viagra, it would have to yield a gross efficacy of 66%. There is no way you can legitimately turn 48% or 50% into 66% no matter how clever you are. These guys are going to get torn apart in court. Hank