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Can anyone refresh who suggested Berman would be nominated for a Nobel? I have been under the assumption 'plutonium' was Babs Asbell, a self-professed friend and colleague of Keith for 45 years.
Some suggest the handle is Berman himself. If such be the case, there's heightened self-promotion writ large: nominate oneself to one of the highest recognition of achievement in a given endeavor. Phew.
I’ve been remiss of late in keeping apprised of Bermanese announcements such as: “ As was highlighted in a prior announcement, the company is emboldened about the efficacy of its saliva technology because of recent media and academic reports showing that saliva may well be the best way to detect the presence of Covid-19 in a virtually non-invasive method.”
As many spurned investors of DECN might or should now ask: where do I spit?
To think Berman could have kept his test this simple. But there was no scratch to be bagged. In the end, his test flunked the smell test-as called out months ago by some here.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/24/health/loss-of-smell-covid-test-wellness-partner/index.html
J_C-oh, I see you are referring to that Made My Fortune. While we’re there, let’s bring back Darylclone (slick baldy) and top it off with Mr. Sensitivity.
LOL ranger, ‘ole Keith took his hands off the wheel and hit a patch of pea gravel. It was his way or the Highway until he hit the SEC toll bridge.
pastry-Berman's moral and ethical blindspots caught a lot off-guard here.
I wish you the best in your new investment horizons, may this DECN debacle be a distant rear-view horizon for all. Time to look forward, as Jim Morrison said: "Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel…"
The fountainhead of the scam. IPW-you blew that whistle, threw a yellow flag in the first quarter!
“ According to the indictment, Berman and DECN were in precarious financial condition in the lead up to the pandemic, and Berman wrote in internal emails that he needed a “new story” to “raise millions.”
stumper-far too conspiratorial. It was relatively early in the EUA solicitation cycle, anyone with any prescience could see validated testing was a holy grail. IMO they were sucked into the Berman Black Hole.
IPW-paraphrasing the patron: the damn rug WILL fly, I guarantee it! Just cross your arms cantilever at chest height, back straight, legs crossed.
This mid-March exchange is worth reflection.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/uimage/uploads/2020/3/15/ghxji02BF2321-94BF-4646-9C04-D0329C7A5A48.png
stumper-indeed your observation is accurate that I posted here with some frequency up to early summer. I since observe between you, IPW and at least three others-‘ole Keith has had his own on-board SDNY scrutinizing his every move, obvious and nuanced. Good on you all. Having the ranger on board as legal counsel advisor has always been informative.
I learned from the DECN JnJ debacle -along with many others. Berman’s antics and strategies came around like a Haley’s comet. The deliveries by Berman were blueprints of JnJ-protracted deflection-living to fight another day.
Some here did make bank-the doors of the Brinks truck swung open in March, bags of cash tumbled out. Hard to stand idly by when coin was running down the gutter. It’s justice the Brinks driver has been pulled over with suspicions of DUI.
ranger-good to see you managing the curbs here. As to Keith, we’ve always known him as a Goliath slayer no? ;-0
I see he’s now set to dawn his legal Houdini suit. It was always Babs that I had ethical challenges with. Quite the enabler par excellence.
Any veteran DECN “investor” from the distant “David and Goliath” days of JnJ should have taken their cue from that protracted fizzle. Berman saw an opportunity to go scam redux with a bogus test derivative of diabetic diagnostics.
Condolences to the many bag holders, invest wisely to those who made bank on the hype from March to August.
Those who have know that Berman couldn’t change his stripes.
Harvard scientist opinion: more cheap and easy tests needed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/harvard-researchers-want-more-crappy-tests-for-covid-19/amp
Thx. vinovista. Fidelity conservative in these matters, they'll let you out but no re-entry allowed.
Has anyone else encountered this-on Fidelity, possible to sell but not to buy due to Caveat Emptor restriction? TIA
Johnny_C-if true, the perpetrator was a she who previously posted as “made my fortune” and has claimed to know Berman for 40+ years. One needs to go way back to the days of Mr. Sensitivity and Daryl Clone. I believe this predates your investment.
The oh-so-familiar Berman fog has descended, so reminiscent of the JnJ protracted litigation. Suspense has yielded to suspended animation. Were a successful outcome imminent, Bozo’d be all over it with teaser releases.
That sign post up ahead reads “dead end”. Berman has pumped the brakes to less than safe speed
so the tourists aboard can savor the ride. Many have been on this tour before.
“ The answer you get are one of three answers. You're either tested as positive, you're tested as negative, or there's sorta an in between where you're neither positive nor negative. And, therefore you should test again."
In between? Test again? I wonder how high the percentage is of the results of the "in between" to have to "test again"?
Sorta an in between. How scientific. Damned fortunate DECN is not pursuing gender determination after conception.
What is/was Doc Berman’s expected date for results? This is feeling like “the check’s in the mail” suspense.
And the mailman is afraid of your dog.
The situation has become as circuitous as the JnJ litigation-and possibly as protracted. And those present then well remember there was in the end-no sizzle on the steak.
I'd have to say-any CEO who puts out an announcement that he'll be putting out an announcement to froth things up-is suspect, especially now swinging into silent (pouting) mode.
Pluto-did I read this with accuracy? You stated DECN's test kit is "the product of the decade", and the decade has just begun. Please provide proof, by the same token of your proverbial request.
The effort will be protracted sufficiently to no longer be considered an EMERGENCY Use Authorization.
Can someone explain how Berman can just decide to drop his glass of lemonade into the swimming pool? Setting the stage for the proverbial reverse if this ordeal drags and the share price dwindles back to the basement.
IP-you’re skillful at painting a non-abstract picture of the illusion of success at DECN until it can no longer be sustained or bad news contained. I have to wonder if Berman’s motivation here-as before-goes beyond monetary. Validation and vindication are powerful motivators as well.
So in the end, you don’t grant Berman even the chance of a peculiar twist of fate in devising a test for COVID-19 when it was in fact a cost effective diabetes test he was pursuing. As accidental as the Arabs in the mid-30s striking oil when they were seeking water-and modern world history was totally rescripted thereafter.
pastry-posed as a question-rhetorical or otherwise-not as a statement. We all know how much is riding on this, and it’s not only monetary.
IP-one can readily deduce you don’t believe DECN has even begun testing, not that the FDA continues to deliberate. If the underlying technology is flawed as you state, I should think someone at the FDA would whistleblow-assuming they are in receipt of all required material.
Additionally, based on past experience with JnJ, do you suppose Berman would withhold news of an unfavorable outcome?
Dr. Rick Bright to testify before Congress on Thursday:
"The virus is out there, it's everywhere. We need to be able to find it, to isolate it and to stop it from infecting more people," Bright plans to say. "We need tests that are accurate, rapid, easy to use, low cost, and available to everyone who needs them."
If Berman is insisting on fooling some of the people all of the time-he’s gone to great lengths and painted himself into a high-visibility corner. With so much at stake-this is highest-order hero or villain season finale.
Let’s get on with making available the silver bullet test:
“The White House is frequently testing its staff using ID Now, a rapid test by Abbott Laboratories that can generate a result in five to 13 minutes. The benefit is its speed and portability; the testing machine is about the size of a toaster oven. But some hospitals and doctors found that it was turning up too many false negatives — cases in which people really had the virus, but the test said they did not.
The ID Now test was granted emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration on March 27. As hospitals and clinics began using the new test, they were finding that it was missing infections, especially when the testing swabs were not placed directly into the machine but were first stored in vials filled with liquid. Abbott later changed its instructions to advise against placing the samples in liquid.”
Where oh where is the would-be Nobel nominee?
So IP, you agree with Berman that this DECN device is really a “game changer” contraption because there really is no prize behind ANY of the doors. Berman has generated and sustained interest in the game to an ever-growing audience until he can place a prize behind one of them-that he has yet to acquire.
Goldie-10% bests 1:10. Either not auspicious.
“1 to 10 odds means that out of 11 possible outcomes, odds are that there will be 1 of one kind of outcome and 10 of another kind of outcome.”
Fascinating really. We are on the precipice of Berman being reviled and ridiculed or revered and renowned. The scales oscillate...or do they?
Thank you TickerT. This suggests DECN could sell product in countries other than the US.
How can Berman be promoting a product not yet approved for EUA? Had it been, shareholders would have been informed via KB unless he’s gone radio silent until EOW.
Whither DECN? Roche to the rescue:
https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2020-05-03.htm