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Sunday, May 15, 2022

One Such Narrative

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 I once made a phage display library. The CEO of the company had a narrative he wanted to push. We find a peptide that binds to a protein an...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

A New Alzheimers Drug

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 The FDA approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimers on June 6, 2021.  Today FDA approved  Aduhelm (aducanumab)  to treat patients with...
Sunday, January 09, 2022

Elizabeth Holmes Enters the Cargo Cult Hall of Fame

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Elizabeth Homes was on trial for fraud . She intentionally lied to people to enrich herself and maintain her multi-billion dollar biotech em...

Rogan and Gupta

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Recently there was an exchange between Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta on Joe's show. It involves the controversial subject of Covid 19 trea...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Covid 19

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 It has been a long time since I have turned to this blog to get some thoughts put into words. The blog was always a way of venting to mysel...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Theranos's Bad Blood

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No one thought to test the tests. The company depicted in John Carreyrou's Bad Blood was indeed a Cargo Cult Biotech. A sociopath CEO ...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Juno Sold for $9,000,000,000

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Long ago, when I first began working in biotechnology, I read a book called, "The 800 Million Dollar Pill"  It was a book that tol...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

The Narrative These Days - Theranos

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We all live by a narrative. Our narrative is the reality that we perceive. It is the explanation we have for why things happen. It is the ...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

One of My Heroes

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Gary Taubes has a new book out. I love what he does. Here is an early piece he wrote on one of my old bosses. P rusiner's propositio...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

I Bought Amgen

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I bought Amgen just before they won their lawsuit against Regeneron/Sanofi. I didn't know about the pending PCSK9 lawsuit though. I was...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

2016 PCRI Dr Eugene Kwon Provenge

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Saturday, December 03, 2016

History of the Narrative

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Respect for the truth! The narrative, as defined by Wikipedia, is " any report of connected events,  real  or  imaginary , presente...
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Friday, November 04, 2016

All Trials TEDTalk

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https://youtu.be/-RXrGLolgEc
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Sereptas Cargo Plane Has Landed

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“there were serious methodological concerns identified by FDA,” according to the documents. To measure the drug’s effect on muscle functio...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Risk of Cheating Barometer

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Cheating in all areas of life is something that will always exist. We frown upon cheating. We throw people in jail if they cheat others out ...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Should Science Be More Boring?

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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. -Warren Buffet Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ...
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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Born Sick, Commanded to Be Well

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A cargo cult is an example of how any religion gets started. People see the complexity of the world and they can't accept not knowing ...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

The Money - Shkreli to Juno

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Forbes had an article in their February issue called "Solving Pharma's Shkreli Problem". The subtitle, "The most hated en...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Threnanos Seeks Bullshit Artist

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RESPONSIBILITIES Innovate and conceptually solve problems through the power of excellent storytelling. Integrate narratives utilizing film...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Harlan Krumholz On Data Sharing

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It is easy to envision how a community of scholars should be organized. Every idea would be taken on its merits, and every person judged on ...