Replies to post #6626 on Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc fka ARIA

[ariadndndough]

don any chance mrk is in talks with the fda on how they want to run the trial???? imho is what is taking so long.

[bellweather1]

"Death by Committee???"

I've also been surprised that Mrk still hasn't started that trial, which seems (rightly or wrongly) to bring us back to conspiratorial speculation about Mrk wanting to keep the lid on Ariad's stock price in conjunction with a possible acquisition.

But if there were any truth to that, you would think they'd be acting right now(if not before), because the cat is quickly slipping out of the bag on this one.

These incongruous facts leave me not knowing what to think except that if something's going to happen, it will very soon,

or,

that Mrk,(like so many of the mega-cap, mammoth pharmas) hardly has a clue, and is a victim of it's own disorganization(i.e.)>>>

"Death by Committee"