Thank you for giving me the opportunity to correct your "quote" of what I allegedly posted.
You quoted my Post as stating:
“NO RESEARCH SUBSIDIZED, PAID FOR, or SUPPORTED BY A BIOTECH COMPANY IS INDEPENDENT... “
While I "IN FACT" my full statement noted just the opposite:
Let's be clear... PAYING FOR A "Service" (Testing) provided by an INDEPENDENT REGIONAL BIOCONTAINMENT LABORATORY ("RBL")...
...does not make the results of the Service (Test) ... "NOT INDEPENDENT"
and where you directly misquoted:
"The only conclusion left...NO RESEARCH SUBSIDIZED, PAID FOR, or SUPPORTED BY A BIOTECH COMPANY IS INDEPENDENT...
Beyond an absurd conclusion!!!"
Original Post for reference:
Let's be clear... PAYING FOR A "Service" (Testing) provided by an INDEPENDENT REGIONAL BIOCONTAINMENT LABORATORY ("RBL")...
...does not make the results of the Service (Test) ... "NOT INDEPENDENT"
To make that assumption, one MUST ASSUME SOME BIZZARE set of fact and IGNORE OTHERS:
1. RBL's are corrupt and not independent...i.e a Biotech firm can "buy" (bribe the entity) the results it is looking for.
2. The mission statement of the RBL's is, IN FACT, TO SERVE (in Part) private sector Biotech firms in testing their compounds at their request and pay for said service.
3. Additionally RBL seeks and is given GRANTS from Governmental Agencies to investigate, test, and analyze compounds and test them against bacteria and viruses (specific to the interest of the Grantor. kIt has been PR'd that GMU and another RBL HAVE BEEN TESTING BRILACIDIN under THOSE GRANTS! (We don't know how large...but they could be hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars focused at Brilacidin)
Therefore...IPIX utilizing the GMU RBL to do another "test"...( WHILE GMU WAS ALREADY INDEPENDENTLY (ie not paid by IPIX) INVESTIGATING BRILACIDIN ...a service for which IPIX likely saved considerable $ and only paid just over $30K (since GMU researcher was deep into Brilacidin at the time).
Payment for Service and conclusions provided by an Independent Government Agency...remains Independent research.
Grant funding an investigation of Brilacidin by RBL, which Grants are received independent of IPIX, remain Independent research.
If the basic premise is Payment of a Service authorized and mandated to be provided by a Government Scientific Agency is never independent if the Service is required to be paid for ...then ALL TESTING PAID FOR BY ANY BIOTECH IS NEVER INDEPENDENT...
ALL clinical trials Paid for by Private Companies and the ancillary services (CRO's, Hospital Sites, Medical Staff supported by those payments) would in some have to be DEEMED...Not Independent Research...
The only conclusion left...NO RESEARCH SUBSIDIZED, PAID FOR, or SUPPORTED BY A BIOTECH COMPANY IS INDEPENDENT...
Beyond an absurd conclusion!!!
PS I stand corrected - Loanranger did not make the absurd conclusion (as he noted in his post made subsequent to mine) that the act paying (for one scientific measurement for Brilacidin) to an RBL (a governmental organization for services it is mandated and required to provide to biotech companies and other Government Agencies) and the requesting testing, does not render that data yielded and conclusions drawn from the testing not Independent. Obviously, your post was and is implying that incorrect conclusion.