NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[terry hallinan]

Thanks for bringing this paper back up, Pyrrhonian.

I had read it before and struggled with this obvious half-truth and forgot all about the document's origin and most everything else:

Regardless of the setting, new therapies should be shown to have at least comparable activity to existing treatments for the existing treatments for the particular stage of disease. This pathway-based distinction recognizes our increasing understanding of cancer as a genetic disease

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http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/03/1078-0432.CCR-13-0315.full.pdf

Japanese women immigrating to the U.S. and eating an American diet will have an increased chance of breast cancer but a lower chance of stomach cancer.

There are no gene transplants at the border and Japanese women, like all women everywhere, are not clones of each other.

The beneficial and carcinogenic parts of the Japanese diet are reputedly seaweed and pickles, respectively.

Having recently tasted authentic Japanese seaweed soup as opposed to some Americanized version, I can see why women would prefer breast cancer.

Until the FDA sets aside the ubiquitous racist ideology that is worldwide, the enormous benefits possible from genetics are going to be minimal at best and sometimes downright dangerous IMO.

As every damn fool knows the Irish are mainly good at fighting and drinking. My son Pat thinks he is Irish like his immigrant grandfather, with the same name oddly enough.

Pat fought one boxing match with a Navy amateur with a very lengthy and excellent record and some 35 pounds heavier in the heavyweight class. After the bout, his opponent told Pat that Pat hit very hard. Pat said all he could remember hitting very hard was the floor, over and over.

Pat perhaps has more genetic markers originating in Ireland than, say, Barack Obama but Pat most certainly has more Viking genes than Irish genes and not from the valiant efforts of the Vikings to disperse their genes but from the home country even before it was a country.

It would be helpful to look at the genes instead of the sociologists doing mythological social constructs.

Do you know why the Vikings never saw werewolves and vampires and leprechauns?

The answer is most surprising:

http://www.damninteresting.com/bad-rye-and-the-salem-witches/

It's not so much the rye they guzzle in D.C. perhaps but the rye they eat.

Best, Terry