NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Right. Adam's tweets and his articles are often to provide cover to the shorts, IMO. The shorts can just point to Adam's article and say that's the reason shareholders sold - it's due to what Adam wrote. And yes, sometimes the selling can be based on his articles - shareholders can get scared maybe he knows something, and some figure since the share price is likely to fall, it's best to be out until at least it settles down to where it's sure to go - given that it is a planned short attack as well. Perhaps they'll enter again at the lower price.

But I'll not forget that share price plunge of 30% back on October 16, 2015, when there was a coordinated short attack on the stock. It really was so obvious at the time. IMO, the shorts were waiting to see if Woodford would step in and prop it up. And when he didn't, they sacked it. The sacking began around 2:00 p.m.

Afterwards, NWBO sent an email to shareholders stating the company believed that the sharp decline was due to short selling activity.

This morning's release from NW Bio (attached) comments on the sharp decline in the Company's common stock last Friday, October 16, and the highly unusual trading activity in the Company's common stock since mid-September, when the Company presented promising interim clinical data in London and New York from both the DCVax®-L and DCVax-Direct clinical programs.

We believe this unusual activity in our stock reflects an orchestrated campaign to drive the stock price lower, including questionable short selling activity. We are intensifying our investigation and gathering of evidence in regard to this stock activity, while we move forward vigorously with our programs.

Well, on October 15, 2015, the day before, Linda Liau had spoken in a webcast to a large group of colleagues - and that was where she discussed how the patients in this trial all seemed to be living longer. And yes, she alluded to the possible issue of the separation between the two arms (treatment and control) not being enough.

However it wasn't until this video was posted, more than 3 months later, that Adam set out to change that narrative of the short attack to instead it was due to LL that the price fell 30%. Given that this event was reported to the SEC, I think he was trying to provide cover for that short attack in presenting this argument as being the reason for the plunge in share price. Otherwise, the shorts would have told him that Linda Liau had spoken (it was public) and that it was due to her presentation that the sale had taken place. But it wasn't until the video actually surfaced that he wrote that this was the reason. He just made it up. It was ludicrous to think that her video had anything to do with the price drop, but Adam set out to point the finger in that direction to provide cover should that short attack be looked at by the SEC.

That's my opinion anyway.