Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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Credentials? Or performance?

I know he felt slighted by the MD community as he felt disrespected, in his interactions with them,....

First, thank you for your comments; understood and appreciated.

In regard to your father, a veterinarian, he, too, was somewhat disregarded by "real physicians." But, actually, physicians are veterinarians, too; but they are trained to treat only one animal, humans.

In my case, I continually detect among my more distant research associates at the university research foundation where I conduct some very leading-edge ecological research their questioning of my position. I'm "just a retired advanced placement high school biology teacher," without advanced degrees. I have no business doing the research I'm doing, or getting big grants for it.

So be it. Thomas Edison, in school, was an absolute failure. He never even graduated from high school. But, because of his ideas, research approach, forbearance, and phenomenal ideas and understandings, he changed the world.

His greatest invention was not the light bulb, sound recording, or motion pictures. Far bigger --- the modern research and development laboratory. Before Edison, inventors locked themselves in closets and kept their ideas and devices secret, until they got a patent. Edison did exactly the opposite. At his new Menlo Park lab, he invited, hired, all sorts of people; without regard to earned degrees. Instead, he wanted around him people with new, good ideas, and the desire to test and prove them. His team shared ideas; kept little secret.

He even asked the wives of his workers what they'd really like his team to invent and develop. What could they "know?" Well, from them came sound recording. They said, "If only our daughters had talking baby dolls!"

The rest is history.

Similar things are happening at Anavex Life Sciences Corp. "Known" and "accepted" understandings of various central nervous system diseases are being discounted. Innovative, new, perspectives are being encouraged and used. Before Anavex, "sigma-1 receptor ligands" for human diseases were essentially unknown. For Alzheimer's, biochemical removal of the tau and beta-amyloid proteins was the ONLY thing that would work --- so said the experts. Well....

Diversities of ideas, trainings, and approaches. With those diversities, things that actually work will arise. The only thing that counts is performance. By the end of the year, we'll know how blarcamesine works in people with Alzheimer's. The drug's curious, "unlikely" mechanism of action will have been validated. Who would have thought? (Many of us here, actually.)