Biotech Values

[oldberkeley]

...a biotech reporter whose relentlessly negative blog posts for thestreet.com this year have not only been filled with exaggeration, mischaracterization and half-truths, but curiously have also coincided with the spikes in short trading.

Ignoring the subjective and pejorative language, they're saying they find it strangely conspiratorial that people would go short on a stock after reading a piece by a knowledgeable writer whom they respect? Why?