To: Lee Fredrickson who wrote (257 ) 5/7/1998 1:22:00 PM From: Marty Respond to of 705
Lee, I appreciate your point and the last thing I would wish on anyone, most particularly a company whose stock I own for over a year now, would be the legal Hell you described. I know they have to watch what they say but, in my view, they take it too far. They say that those who have been bitten by alligators are afraid of lizards. The point is that they could, for example, publish (send to the press) the reports and presentations they already have, they have to write them (or describe them) so they are less technical and more understandable to the public, they could share the status of the tests ... that they are now testing so many people in so many test sites, they could describe the nature and size of the problem, they could say what is going on now and what's next, and on and on. There are so many articles being written lately in the lay journals about promising approaches .... NOTHING is mentioned as far as I can tell, about NEOT ... either in the AZ or the spinal cord injury area. What's happening with the spinal cord injury drug testing? Isn't there a connection with what NEOT is testing and a potential treatment for Christopher Reed's injury? Aren't public relations firms SUPPOSED to relate to the public? NOBODY is asking for hype but, as I have written before this is like pushing a string. And, again as I have written before, when something does come out it is like getting cotton candy when you are really hungry for a steak. I submit that they have to be more sensitive to the legitimate needs of their shareholders. I, for one, have an emotional as well as financial investment in the company. I know that is wrong for an investor but the promise of the whole thing just overwhelms me.