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Biotech / Medical : Techniclone (TCLN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shlepper who wrote (2492)	8/29/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3702

Shlepper, if the FDA can't handle it, they should abdicate. Just as the USSR 5 Year Plan Committee for the Control and Planning, Allocations and Rationing couldn't handle any significant economy and had power taken from them. Dying people aren't in the mood for bureaucracy for the sake of it. People who are attacked or prevented from living will resist their demise. The FDA could prosecute fraud, negligence and the like to protect desperate patients from abuse, but leave it to them and their oncologist advisers what risks to take. Then there would be a lot more results more quickly. There is no point in dying from glioma, lymphoma or similar diseases. You might as well die from something in the attempt to avoid the disease, even if there is now no scientific proof. Fraudulent claims should be prosecuted with all vengeance. For example if somebody offers some fake cancer cure, making false claims, then confiscate all their property and jail them. But if they say, "try this - I'm hoping it might do something but have only a guess based on not much", then fair enough. Cyclophosphamide as a cancer cure and many medicines were discovered by serendipity, trial and error. We need maximum trials and NO deaths from cancer - all from trying some idea or other to kill the cancer. That would improve the rate of knowledge advance. Maybe thousands of ideas would be tried to find only one Periwinkle plant, Yew tree, aspirin brew from willow bark, or whatever is effective. I'd rather die from cod liver oil poisoning [I don't mind the taste of cod liver oil funny though most would find that] than lymphoma or melanoma. It wouldn't increase my suffering and maybe by 1:100,000 it might work. Dying from lymphoma or melanoma definitely doesn't work. Vitamin D and A are linked to cancer it seems. Of course I'd try the best scientifically based treatments first and maybe in conjunction with some guesswork efforts on the side. But that is a choice for individuals, not bureaucrats. Sorry about getting your name wrong before! Maurice [Cancer, TCLN poor managment and bad markets do seem to reduce people's sense of humour. These threads - SI and Yahoo! always seem pretty tetchy unless you are in maniacal agreement that TCLN is saving the world and worth $20. I'll mention reverse splits again soon and you watch the spittle fly. I have an excellent list of 8 good reasons for reducing the number of shares by a factor of 4, but those who disagree use only anecdotal mystical incantations and personal abuse as reasoning. With some luck, these good TNT results should help get the stock up to $8 where it needs to be to minimize damage to shareholder value. But time will tell.]