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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Dally who wrote (28459)	5/24/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: Michael Burry	Respond to of 132070

Re: placebos, investment potential Yeah, they're called Vitamin B12 shots. Ever here of them? :-) Basically, the perfect placebo feels like medicine, i.e. the B12 shot is a painful intramuscular depot shot usually in the shoulder, but sometimes in the butt. Itÿlooks like medicine, i.e. anything in a syringe. And it is relatively harmless, i.e. a natural vitamin. Even better, the lore surrounding B12 is such that over half my patients credit them with curing something atÿone time or another, and they talk amongst themselves. It is truly a wonderdrug. Even even better, 99.9% of the cost of it is administering the shot and the office visit, so there are very high margins in it (gets the physicians to play along). Just make sure the patient returns for monthly shots. Say, anyone interested in starting a pyramid scheme? First in gets the best of all that follow! We can concoct a bitter tasting potion of herbs, use my M.D. as validation, and market it as the cure. Need a bunch of ISR's (independent sales reps). And a bunch of morons - preferably, a good portion of which will double as ISR's. I guarantee a ROYI less than mine! Good Investing, Michael Burry