Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc fka ARIA

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Your view that no matter what happens we win has never been true. There are few win win situations. Most of the time you have to make good decisions to make money. The concept of a sure thing is a pipe dream. Most people realize that.

lax, your post is one of the best posts on this board ever, or any board for that matter. It is the ultimate lesson of investing in Ariad (especially at this moment in time), and for that matter, biotech, and for that matter, stocks. If 'no matter what happens..win-win' were actually true, it would already be true, and not just for Ariad, but for every stock. Folks, think about it.

Ariad was a sure thing, several times actually, only to not to be proven not so.

If folks believe a company's most important asset is its people, HB is the one constant that has lorded over several Ariad crashes. Since the science has always been strong even as it evolved, time to change the constant factor. HB had 5, 10, 20, 25 years...same results. He shouldn't get 3 or 4 more years to screw up. The shareholder should not fear this change, they should embrace it.