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If not today, then it should go thru the buck mark this week.
My guess is that we will smash through the dollar barrier this afternoon.
Finally hit .90 ... I was shocked that we hadn't opened above .90 and been challenging at least the buck a pop mark on the news. As you point out earlier, there is just too much history to overcome ... remember where we were last year at this time and how we were convinced that we were going to have a breakout year and then watched as we fizzled. I think some of the upcoming events in January are going to go a very very long way in shaping what happens to share price and possible even the corporation in the coming year.
Interesting news, isn't it. Now let's see some real marketing.
Wow Happy, surprised that you're up so early. You were the hit of the party last night. Everyone is still talking about your Saddam impersonation. That was great. We still can't figure out how you did that little thing with the AK-47. Very good.
Anyway, without the PP suit over their shoulders, CYGX should feel free to make several moves. Somebody suggested that PP might refile their suit, but I can't see that happening. Of course, everyone is still waiting to see how the CYGX vs Waldroff appeal is considered.
If it is upheld then things will get interesting. It will cost CYGX some money, but I understand that they have already set that money aside in an account. Smart move.
Anway, at least our stocks are going up for a change and we'll just hope that they don't do like they did a year ago ... those charts are still frightening.
Sanoman, just because you live smack dab in the middle of God's Country, don't make fun of our heat ... you could be transferred to Salt Lake City ... LOLOL. I hope Bigworld spends some time doing house shopping in the Wimberley-Canyon Lake area. Lots of very nice little bergs out there.
You hit one of our problems on the head. In his field, Malcolm is brilliant, but nobody can be brilliant in everything. Even Einstein was functionally impaired in some areas. Prior to Malcolm becoming CEO, there was some serious debate and it was not a slam dunk. There is no doubt that Malcolm is an asset ... but it is kinda like lining up Mean Joe Green or Bob Lilly at Wide Receiver or Quarterback.
We still need three positions filled (CEO-CFO) ... and we need a good vacuum cleaner salesman to head marketing also. Our only really great strength is in our back shop and as I've said many, many times, they should someday be waltzing across the stage as they pick up their Nobel's. And that is not hype. Yin, Harilyn, XX and the gang are that good. (Wonder how Paulness reconciles their brilliance and importance with the fact that most are Chinese.)
As exciting as the news is, I've been here too long to expect us to "go to the moon." Look at the jump a year ago ... up and then big time down. Hope it doesn't do that this time.
As for the PP suit, we really dodged a bullet. Before anyone jumps to too many conclusions, they need to look closely at who was representing whom and the ramifications of terminal incompetence. We'd better be glad a lot of the facts will probably fade into obscurity and not be presented in open court ... at least for the time being.
Our most sincere and deeply felt condolences, scootergrrrl ...
unfortunately i will be busy with my mom's memorial service today.
ROFL ... good one ... that guy looks a lot like LW wearing a cheap wig ... LOL ... have you ever wondered what the real story is behind the fact that LW still sports his cue-ball hair style in spite of the fact that he had the first prescription for a CYGX product (hair restorer) hanging on his wall?
Maybe you should start a similar program for the missing Arnold.
Happy, I hope you are not expecting a rational and well thought out response (and certainly no answers) from little gdpec or any of his minions and alter-aliases.
The truth is that there are only a very few of us who have actually spoken to all parties concerned. I have spoken with DL and his attorney and sat across the table from MS and LW and asked questions ... and received answers. Many of those answers were just not satisfactory. Both sides defended their original agreement and both spoke extremely highly of the other side in the beginning.
Early on, I specifically questioned MS about PP's expertise, resources, etc. Both he and LW were all aglow with the reassurances and praise of DL and the PP effort, and were not open to criticism of the arrangement.
Once the rift started, it became all out warfare between the two sides. It was a scenario that was not without precedent. I have seen it before ... de javu all over again.
I believe that you have reported factually and in the most fair and balanced manner. I recall you saying that as long as PP had the same legal representation, you were not overly worried. Recent events have proven that to be 100% correct. You also observed that there seems to be a legitimate contract. Both MS an LW had confirmed that to me.
There is no good party and no bad party ... no saints and no sinners ... both sides have been guilty of multiple transgressions ... the problem is that the shareholders are the ones who are having to pay ... and I'm really getting tired of that happening.
Oh, and is it true that if Lawrence Wunderlich, Charlie Bardwell and a porcupine were in a personality contest ... there wouldn't be a winner??????
You may be on to something, PaulNESS ... and have you noticed that happycamper and nearly napping and phanuel pursuits haven't been seen and that hogger is posting far less .... hmmmmmmm ... I'll bet that hogger is really Dell Skillern and that the others are not really themselves either ... wonder if Arnold and Illene are actually one person with split personalities and it makes one wonder if grrdvm is really a monkeys uncle ... roflmao ... wow ... some of you folks are absolutely brilliant .... no wonder you venerate Lawrence and Malcolm .... vote them another 18 millions share option ....
Great old expression ... we always took it to mean that someone was a little light in the smarts department ... when said by a spook or clan-com spec, it is a short form of "Why doncha go pound sand up your a$$."
More respectable explanation is:
The origin of the expression "go pound sand" is from a longer expression, not to know (have enough sense to) pound sand down a rathole.
Filling rat holes with sand is menial work, and telling someone to pound sand down a hole is like telling them to go fly a kite.
The expression dates to at least 1912 and is common in the midwestern United States.
Why can't we get news like this??????? We've made millionaires out of our astute management team.
No. 1 Amgen to buy Abgenix for $2.2B
Biotech giant says buyout of genetic firm would trim 2006, 2007
EPS; both stocks jump on news.
December 14, 2005: 4:55 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amgen Inc., the world's largest biotechnology company, said Wednesday it plans to acquire Abgenix Inc. for about $2.2 billion in cash, giving Amgen full control over the cancer drug the two are developing.
Abgenix (Research) stock surged more than 49 percent in after-hours trading after closing at $14.65, while Amgen (Research) shares climbed more than 2 percent after the bell, closing at $76.78.
Amgen said it expected the deal to reduce its adjusted earnings per share in 2006 and 2007 by 5 cents to 10 cents, and to add to earnings thereafter, assuming commercial success of experimental cancer drug panitumumab.
Amgen, headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., said it would pay $22.50 a share for Fremont, Calif.-based Abgenix, plus assumption of debt.
"Abgenix is a natural strategic fit for Amgen given our strong existing relationship. ... This investment reflects Amgen's commitment to our pipeline and our growing confidence in the future success of both panitumumab and denosumab," Kevin Sharer, Amgen's president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
The companies announced last month that panitumumab was shown to slow tumor growth in patients with advanced colon cancer who had not responded to chemotherapy.
Amgen said it believed that potential peak worldwide sales for the drug could reach $2 billion or more.
Denosumab, another antibody-based drug, is being developed as a treatment for osteoporosis.
The deal, still subject to the approvals of Abgenix's shareholders and regulatory authorities, and to other customary closing conditions, is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2006.
Tanankano, indeed a good looking touch of angel nectar ... for a fairly modestly priced single malt, I keep my cabinet supplied with Scapa ... indeed it is from Scapa Flow .... Just had but a wee bit of a nip meself ....
Paulness, normally I just don't even acknowlege your posts, but your racist references have gone too far this time. I find it incredulous that a self professed Christian would make such a sick perverted statement about a race of people as fine as the Chineese are. Please take this manner of posts somewhere else.
after all, unchecked the Chinese would eat the world. Look what they are doing to the dogs, cats, whales, sharks ,even their aborted children its sick.
Isn't it a crying shame that CYGX and AVGI brass had to let their egos and little petty battles prevent the research on companion animals. Both should be taken out behind the woodshed and introduced to the board of education.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Mankind's best friend for thousands of years is ready to teach new tricks to science.
The genetic makeup of the dog -- in this case a boxer named Tasha -- has been deciphered and should help identify genes that make both dogs and people vulnerable to cancers, heart disease, diabetes, epilepsy, blindness, deafness and even some psychiatric disorders, scientists said Wednesday.
The work is the first virtually complete decoding of the species and illuminates the blueprint that shapes everything from the smallest Chihuahua to the biggest Great Dane.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read," quipped Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, crediting the late comic Groucho Marx. "We're here to unveil the book of the dog."
Collins and other researchers made their announcement at a Boston dog show. The research, overseen by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, was published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
The researchers used the DNA of a family pet whose owners wish to remain anonymous. The female boxer named Tasha was chosen from more than 100 candidates because her DNA looked especially amenable to identifying its 2.4 billion chemical building blocks. But it turned out that any dog would do, said Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute.
"It is a historic occasion today for the relationship between humans and dogs," he said of the animal domesticated 30,000 years ago. "Dogs are prepared to teach us new tricks."
The results are more complete than those announced in 2003 for the DNA of a male poodle named Shadow. Scientists have also deciphered the DNA of mice, rats, chimps, chickens and of course humans, as well as many other organisms.
At the DNA level, two randomly chosen dogs differ only about as much as two randomly chosen people, yet the variation in appearance, size and behavior in dogs is "just mind-boggling," Lander said in an earlier interview.
"How is it within one narrow gene pool you can produce Chihuahuas and Great Danes?" he asked.
Much of the answer involves differences in turning gene activity on and off, he said, and further study could improve the understanding of that.
The new work also identified signposts along the canine DNA that will help spot genes that predispose dogs to certain diseases, some of which they share with humans.
In fact, it may be vastly easier to find disease genes in dogs than in people. Intensive breeding has left its mark in the dog genome so that finding DNA regions with disease genes "is like hitting the side of a barn," Lander said.
Such research should benefit dogs and their owners, said William Truesdale, a board member of the American Kennel Club's Canine Health Foundation, which put $2 million into the dog DNA project.
"We're trying to erase these genetic frailties" by screening dogs for disease genes prior to breeding, he said. That effort is in its infancy, but over time, many of these genes can be eliminated through breeding, he said.
And puppies can be tested to assure their owners that they won't get certain diseases, "like a Good Housekeeping seal," Truesdale said.
Dog DNA is already teaching several lessons about human DNA. For one thing, comparisons between DNA of dogs, humans and mice revealed elaborate controls on the activity of certain human genes active in early development, Lander said.
The three-way comparisons also showed that some genetic features found in humans but not mice aren't really unique to people, but also appear in dogs, he said. "The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here," Lander said.
Researchers also estimated that dogs have 19,300 genes, almost all of them canine versions of genes found in people.
Prior studies have indicated that people have about 3,000 more, but Lander said the dog analysis "is leading us to question whether those are in fact real human genes." Some proposed human genes, he said, are now "suspect" and may not be genes at all.
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Aren't you glad that our astute management team has managed to position us on the forefront of this technology and managed to bring our PPS up to several dollars a share .... well, at least we're not below 20% of our high share price .... Folks who bought at the peak have only lost 75% of their investment ....
Bird Flu, Part IV: Flying the Coop for New Vaccine Technology
Thursday, December 08, 2005
By Liza Porteus
NEW YORK — The "chicken and the egg" approach to mass-producing influenza vaccines may soon fly the coop.
Although the tried-and-true — yet slow — process of making vaccines from flu viruses grown in fertilized chicken eggs is currently the only method approved in the United States, various drug companies and other corners are working on the next generation of vaccines using what's called "cell-culture technology."
The hope is that cell culture can help create vaccines faster, especially in the face of a pandemic flu — whether it be the H5N1 bird flu virus or another strain.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178115,00.html
Arnold, there are a group of posters (or at least different aliases) on this board who only hype everything and attack anyone who questions the lack of having a marketable product. At least one of them is a professional who gets paid to 'build up' a stock.
Adopting posting styles and using multiple aliases is a common trick these days. We have some of them on this thread. I just refuse to even acknowledge their existence, much less respond to their posts.
CYGX has made many, many promises and then failed to deliver on them. They have been in possession of the technology to bring a product to market, but alway seem to fail to get it off and running. My biggest fear is that they must rely in part on someone elses technology to have a complete package. Why else would they have failed to fully develop and market a product that had proof of concept of a long, long time ago?
CYGX has more academic credentials that Carter has little liver pills, but they are extremely short on having successful commericial experience. They also are short on financial expertise. They do have a 'back shop' that is overflowing with talent, but nobody who is able to capitalize on their work.
If Low/No trading was an indicator of immediately forthcoming news, we would have been covered with PR's.
Can't find a trading halt, but no volume this far into the day screams news.
Rick, I'm not sure how this is connected to cygx, but somewhere in this weird story is a moral that may be applicable. Any ideas ... LOLOL ... Seriously, you have made some brilliant suggestions over the years and serve as the perfect example of science falling prey tp NIH syndrome.
WOODSIDE, Calif. — Two former caretakers who refused to bare their breasts to the 300-pound, sign-language-speaking gorilla named Koko have settled a lawsuit against the Gorilla Foundation.
Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller claimed they were fired after they refused to expose their bosoms to the primate, and after reporting sanitary problems at Koko's home in Woodside, an upscale town south of San Francisco.
The pair claimed they were threatened that if they "did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish, their employment with the Gorilla Foundation would suffer," the lawsuit alleged.
Alperin and Keller claimed that Francine "Penny" Patterson, the gorilla's longtime caretaker and president of the Gorilla Foundation, pressured them to expose their breasts as a way to bond with the 33-year-old female simian.
happy, here is another great opportunity ... if our management team could just for once get tunnel vision and focus on one project ... like maybe get the anti-inflammatory or herpes to market and providing cash flow for all of the other great ideas ...
ATLANTA — A deadly bacterial illness commonly seen in people on antibiotics appears to be growing more common — even in patients not taking such drugs, according to a report published Thursday in a federal health journal.
In another article in the New England Journal of Medicine, health officials said samples of the same bacterium taken from eight U.S. hospitals show it is mutating to become even more resistant to antibiotics.
"I don't want to scare people away from using antibiotics. ... But it's concerning, and we need to respond," said Dr. L. Clifford McDonald, an author of both articles and an epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Hospitals need to be conducting surveillance and implementing control measures. And all of us need to realize the risk of antibiotic use may be increasing" as the bacteria continue to mutate, McDonald said.
The bacterium is Clostridium difficile, also known as C-diff. The germ is becoming a regular menace in hospitals and nursing homes, and last year it was blamed for 100 deaths over 18 months at a hospital in Quebec, Canada.
"What exactly has made C-diff act up right now, we don't know," McDonald said.
Golly gosh oh gee, Chucka ... are you going to write a new book on pumping for fun and profit ... why do you insist on insulting the members of this thread with such hype? What is your exact financial relationship with CYGX and how are folks such as gdepc and Paulness involved?
Chucka Public Relations (Charles Hopkinson Marshall) has helped numerous companies, both private and public, raise their profiles and adding value through innovative and effective PR programs based upon Internet exposure. Having made a name for himself as a Biotech writer at Silicon Investor (the medical types their would quip that he has the gift of stream of consciousness and a code ring may be needed to decipher his talk), Marshall's stylized, humorous writing has now been recognized by some as a new era form of American humor on many boards on the WWW, while at the same time carrying content that is more than worth the "effort" of reading his messages.
Arnold, I think what I said was:
I finally got a few minutes to drop by CYGX offices just before noon, but was told that everyone was out of the office and it would be after the Thanksgiving holidays before I would be able to catch them.
Isn't it amazing how many different conclusions have been drawn. Heck, some folks have decided that I hadn't called ahead; others that I was fibbed to and all kinds of nonsense.
Isn't it amazing that some folks are so darned determined to read in things that I have never said. ROFLMAO
Anybody have any news concerning any of the lawsuits?
Hey there nappie, I am amazed. I dropped by CYGX and posted the results which were that nobody was home and now I'm getting tons of laughs at the responses.
Some of those with healthy doses of skepticism have managed to read all sorts of ominous messages into the circumstances. The rainbow warriors seem to be able to read not only great news in my report but have been able to discern all kinds of information concerning my life from it as well.
I'm catching a flight in a couple of hours and will be freezing my tail off for a couple of days, but maybe when I get back I'll be able to tag base with someone at CYGX if I have time to mess with it.
BTW, to show what a total idiot one of our misguided posters is, I was indeed able to walk right by the secretaries desk and into the inner sanctum with one of the employees there .... roflmao.
Anyone heard anything about any new legal actions pending or the status of the appeal of the Waldroff suit?
I finally got a few minutes to drop by CYGX offices just before noon, but was told that everyone was out of the office and it would be after the Thanksgiving holidays before I would be able to catch them.
Hey John, I love this discussion of best places to live ... in Texas, of course. Superchick and I were up in one of our favorites this past weekend ... Wimberley. Had a great meal and did some pretty intense shopping. Of course, it's just a stones throw from both Austin and San Antonio, and about two and a half hours from Houston.
There are some excellent developments in the area ... for instance: Saddleridge, where you can get a nice three to four acre lot for forty thousand or so.
Anywhere from Wimberley to Canyon Lake is beautiful and some of the areas are simply spectacular. Looks like we will only have a weekend place in that area as I just can't pry SC out of Katy ... and BTW, this isn't a bad place to live, either. Lived in Temple for a dozen years and it is another great area.
I'm still trying to get loose to go by CYGX ... on my way to meet with some of my legal beagles now ... hope to finish in time to swing by and check out the progress.
Bigworld, ROFLMAO ... good one ...
only things I find interesting is that As of September 30, 2005, 119,162,970 shares of the issuer's common stock was outstanding ...... and
<iITEM 2. CHANGES IN SECURITIES
The Company issued 500,000 shares of common stock to Stonebridge Holding LLC for services provided in the third quarter pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 for transactions not involving a public offering.
The Company issued 5,226,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate cash price of $1,306,500 (or $0.25per share) in a private placement to accredited investors pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by
Section 3(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 504 thereunder. The consideration for these shares was received during the third quarter.
BTW, don't forget that LW is Russian ... LOLOL.
Looks like the spike is getting dulled again ... already dropped a nickle off the high ... I'll try to drop by the HQ later this week ... have to be in that area anyway and if I have time I'll try to do an on-site.
Please tell me that the news is NOT that someone else is bringing a lawsuit against our fine management team.
Although there is no news out, news is out.
Pretty astute observation, Happy. How many times have we been told that everything was negotiated and all that remained was reducing it to writing or even just getting the signatures on the lines.
If our great management team would have just concentrated on ONE thing and actually got something to market, we would not be rolling around down here in this price range. There has never, to my knowledge, been even one explanation for why the 'deal d'jour' was silently slid on the back burner or dumped in the sink.
I'm still wanting to find out what happened to those great financing deals with the Taiwanese, GE, etc, etc, etc. Has anything ever been put out that would indicate that any of those deals were anything other than just pipe dreams by our illustrious CFO?
Well, it's the same old song ... fiddle and guitar .... it's been the same way for years ....
Arnold, why do I have that sickening feeling that in the instant case SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN.
Just think of what a great PR CYGX could have put out if Dr. Chen had been a speaker at this week's 3rd Vaccine Conference. Another opportunity lost.
This entire fiasco is deserving of an investigation of some kind. Someone needs to be called on the carpet and compelled to explain what happened to all of the projects you have posted about.
If, by some stretch of the imagination, great progress has been made in anything isn't it a requirement that such be published? Even if it is just that the SynDNA production facility is actually under construction and nearing completion. I'm worried that nothing is progressing and that is the reason for the total blackout on information.
Twenty Three Oh Two .... hmmmmmm .... Am I the only one who is just busting a gut laughing at some of the clones who keep trying to pretend that all of the hollow promises from the past are meaningless and that all that matters is the latest and greatest flood of promises about how SynDNA is going to be the salvation of mankind.
Even if our front office clown corps manages to get a facility built and producing this SynDNA, it is going to be interesting to see if they can market it. All the degrees and such nonsense cannot sell anything. That takes salesmen ... and I'm not talking about failed stocked peddlers that give away shares at enormous discounts to their friends and circle of who-evers.
Yeah, I suppose we should just ignore the facts that we have been promised the moon for years and haven't been given even a small glass thru which to look at it ...... oh well, maybe we should vote another umpteem million share options for our illustrious management team.
Tatonkano, why are you doing this to me? This is pure, unadulterated torture. For all these years I have followed along and believed everything that was put out by our current team of exquisite management and finance. Oh yes, I remember all of these after you reminded me of them.
We were dancing on the ceiling when we were given various bits and pieces of news. It seems like we were then the recepients of the old "turned back trick."
All we are getting now is an endless line of crappy PR's and promises. I want to know where all of those great financing deals went. Why don't we have the Taiwaneese or G. E. money underwriting the efforts to actually carry just one little project to fruition????
Why have we been built up repeatedly only to have the project that was touted so greatly one day being invisible the next day? Is there even one good reason that our great management team has yet to actually finish one project or bring one product to market?
I don't want to hear a lot of pie-in-the-sky hype from our resident drum and bugle corps ... I would like to hear some candid explanations of why we have nothing to show after all of the trumpeting of great things to come for the past many years.
Well it's the same old song ... fiddle and guitar ... it's been the same way for years ... rhinestone coats and two dollar smokes ... where do we take it from here .... we gotta change ....
WOW Tatonkano, you really jogged some misaligned memory cells with that post. Was there ever a definitive follow-up release concerning those experiments? I somehow vagualy remember those being sucessful and leading to animal tests, but can't remember any of the particulars. Refresh my failing memory if you can.
I also notice that Jonathan was coordinating that whole affair. Do you remember any of the particulars that led to his parting ways and the lawsuit that followed. I thought I had some notes on that matter but can't seem to find them. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that using the Isis 2302 molecule was sucessful beyond anyones wildest dreams. Of course I think cygx later said they had something better, but have never seen anything published that would back up that idea. I do know that Isis 2302 was the subject of several discussions among folks who had used it earlier this year. Wonder why CYGX seems to be ignoring its existance these days?????? I still feel they should have had a product to market long ago using it.
Our congratulations on a great season for the White Sox. We were pulling for them all the way thru the playoffs until the World Series. Love their pitching staff. We nicknamed Jenks "Baby-Huey" during the regular season. I have been a fan of Ozzie for years and interviewed him several times over the years when he was a player.
Yeah, Old Scrap Iron can heave a chair with the best of them. He really has 'cooled down' as a manager when compared to when he was a player. He is still just as intense but shows it differently these days. The chair was a flash back to the 'good old days.' Back then Phil had no grey hair and I had some hair. LOLOLOL
Next time you are down in the Austin/San Antonio area try going on the back roads from SAS to AUS and go thru Sattler and Wimberly. Canyon lake is wonderful, but it is a little too crowded and the land prices have skyrocketed. We have been pricing land in Wimberly. Found a lot downtown that we would have like for a business, but it was three times too high. There are some very beautiful developments in the area and you can still get a five to ten acre spread at a reasonable price.
Hey BW ... I checked today and the CYGX vs Waldroff appeal is still pending. It seems to be taking a lot of time, but that also seems to be the standard for appeals here in the Lone Star State.
This is pretty scarry ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173462,00.html
Miracle Cure, or Murky Research?
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
By Wendy McElroy
Herceptin, a therapeutic drug for breast cancer, was trumpeted across the news last week after a glowing report appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Forbes called it a "wonder drug"; the London Times declared Herceptin "stunning"; CNN heralded the drug as "perhaps the most powerful cancer medicine in a decade," which "can halve the risk of relapse" in many cases.
I hope the reports are accurate.
But another body of research has gone comparatively unnoticed.
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by John P. A. Ioannidis -- an epidemiologist at the University of Ioannina (Greece) -- presents convincing evidence that an alarmingly high number of scientific "findings" are eventually proven false.
Dr. Ioannina first published his controversial claim in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, July 2005). JAMA's report studied "all original clinical research studies published in three major general clinical journals or high-impact-factor specialty journals in 1990-2003," each of which had been "cited more than 1000 times" in subsequent literature.
In short, Ioannina focused on original research published by influential journals and widely accepted as accurate by other scientists. (These studies are the cream-of-the-cream and can be expected to return the highest accuracy rate within medical research in general.)
Their data impact the health and, sometimes, the life of patients.
Of 49 studies, 45 "claimed that the intervention [examined] was effective," which means they changed the day-to-day decisions of medical care.
Fourteen of those 45 studies (approx. 32 percent) were subsequently refuted. Twenty (44 percent) were replicated or validated. Eleven (24 percent) remain unchallenged and, so neither validated nor refuted.
One refuted study concerned the safety of hormone-replacement therapy for women…in case you wondered why that therapy was deemed safe one minute and risky the next. Fortunately for women, the media focused on the medical establishment's about-face on hormone replacement. But the refutation of other studies hasn't received similar publicity.
Nor has Ioannina's claim that fully 50 percent of medical research is wrong, with approximately the same chance of accuracy as flipping a coin.
Ioannina's conclusion is speculative but, given that so many prestigious studies have been contradicted, it is not wildly improbable.
BigB, I seriously doubt that many (if indeed any) of the locals consider CYGX to be a scam. It appears to this old geezer that folks for the most part are very unhappy with the course management has taken in far too many instances.
Now, before you tell me that I should just sell and move on, I must point out that this is just as much MY company as it is any one elses. I have put time, effort and money into it and have the greatest appreciation and confidence in the folks like Yin, Harrilyn, X and the others in the lab (the back shop gang, if you will.)
What we 'may' have here 'may' be a problem rooted in the old phrase, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." I really hope that is the case, but I greatly fear that it is going to go at least a bit deeper.
Management needs to candidly disclose our current posture in several arenas. Most of us can live with dissapointing results and compromised positions, but feeling that we are either being mislead or in the least not candidly addressed is most disconcerting.
Even after all of the delays and disappointments, I would continue to throw some money at the development of a product line because I believe in the core technology. Given the apparent attitude of current management, I'd throw very little. They are just not proving themselves worthy of trust and confidence.
Simple answer is....if people think CYGX is a scam...then sell and get away....
I don't think it is a scam.....I am staying put
Fear Not Jimmy Joe ... I'm sending Mr. Kibbles an Astros kitty reliever uniform. Once he slips it on and strolls to the mound, the next batter will knock the sheet out of him.
I am still holding it so is Mr. Kibbles.
GO 'STROS
Hey A&I, some folks around these parts simply post whatever they are told to post. For the most part I just either ignore them or laugh at their rantings.
The silence is deafening. I understand less and less about the strategy that is being followed by the fine folks at the helm of the SS CYGX. Do you think they could be experimenting with rudderless scattergun navigation and helmsmanship?
We are down to under two and a half months to go in the year and it seems that we are adrift awaiting the attainment of some promised port.
Finances drive a corporation and we seem to just be without even a jib, much less a main or spinnaker ... agree?
I would think that someone that has been in this stock since 1997 would have some concerns by the year 2005.