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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Flagrante Delictu who wrote (19979)	5/4/1998 8:18:00 AM
From: tonyt	Respond to of 32384

>Tony, OFF TOPIC, I posted my interpretation of the Yahoo post on this thread in >response to the interchange between you & Dan O. on this thread. For that reason >& the reason that neither you or Dan might regularly view such a tiny aggregation of >LGND posts compared to what can be found here, I thought it best to do the deed >here. And yet you seem to have a real problem with him (or do you still believe that the poster is coutrney?) posting on yahoo instead of contacting henry directly? You don't even give him a forum to respond. You are disecting his post and interpreting his thoughts, yet you won't even give him the oportunity to respond (well, can't lose an argument that way, can you?). You (and Dan) also seem to have a problem with his 'facts' that are really only opinions, however, when we are told in a definative statement that 'buyers are lining up' and that 'they were not sells, they were swaps', I don't recall you or Dan having any problem with those 'facts'. >[stuff about what he really, really means deleted]

To: Flagrante Delictu who wrote (19979)	5/4/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: tonyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

In case you missed it: messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com dnarnaprotein May 4 1998 12:10PM EDT Dear Bernie, Yipes. What's wrong with posting an opinion? And it's just my opinion, but it seems a bit odd to respond at length on SI (http://www3.techstocks.com/~wsapi/investor/reply-4304043) to a Yahoo posting. Please feel free to respond to this message [on Yahoo]. And I apologize for cluttering up the Yahoo board with this response. FYI, Evans uses the term "nuclear receptor" to describe a member of this superfamily. The major meeting on this topic is sponsored every other year by the Keystone Symposia, and he was one of three organizers of the most recent (March 28 - April 3, 1998, at Lake Tahoe), entitled "Nuclear Receptor Gene Family." For one of many recent examples of an Evans citation using this term see: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov As for Henry's scientific efforts, I knew that he had never published a scientific paper on nuclear receptors, but was leaving open the possibility that he actually did have some direct experience, perhaps when Ligand was starting up. As for whether I am the <<dearly departed "Courtney">> or any of the other candidates, the answer is no. You're right that I don't really have the time to waste posting messages on these boards, and this is my second. As for the Glaxo/Wellcome investment in structural determination, this was based on their presentations at several recent scientific meetings of the x-ray crystal structures of an interesting nuclear receptor called PPAR, which is involved in lipid metabolism. Presumably these structures will be published soon, but companies are slow. Finally, I have to say that I feel like Web Hubbell, whose more positive comments on Hillary were edited out in the transcripts released by the VRWC. To reiterate, my opinion is that "the science at Ligand is strong, and the science in his (Henry's) posts is generally both accurate and articulately described." Among scientists, this is certainly more than faint praise.