NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

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Toxicity testing is not a waste of time. Like so many people here, you pretend to *know* that Fluicide is harmless to people when it's never been tried on people. In fact, fluicide has only been tested on a rats and maybe a couple of other species. Your overweening confidence is the sort of attitude that brought us thalidomide.

At the beginning of the 20th century food and medicine makers decided to switch from using ethanol as a solvent for things like making vanilla extract to using methanol. Methanol was cheaper, it was easy to produce and wasn't taxed. Extensive testing was done -- methanol was no more dangerous than ethanol to rats, dogs, hamsters, monkeys, and every other animal tested. In most species it was a bit safer than ethanol. The result was a medical disaster. Only many years later, after the damage to humans became all too obvious, was methanol removed and ethanol used instead. Humans metabolize methanol differently than every other mammal.

So toxicity testing is necessary. Then phase I testing is necessary -- to determine safety, not efficacy, in humans. We are not rats. And investors are well aware that every stage of testing can yield ugly surprises. Which is why right now NNVC never gets above 50 cents a share for long.