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Post by s4cure on Mar 23, 2015 16:47:50 GMT -5
I want to create this thread for some fun distraction from our dragging pps. PA has been one of my favorite writers on SA. I doesn't matter if she was bullish or bearish on mnkd, but I was definitely learning from reading her articles/comments, which was more important to me. Scotta called out Jenny Ruhl, author of Blood Sugar 101, to be PA on SA in one of his comments. So let's compare the facts of these two persons: PA | JR | Comment | DOB unknown; whose mom born in 1918 | DOB 1950 | no conflict here | Lives in Massachusetts | Lives in Gill, MA | match | Suffering from diabetes; Used prandial insulin | T2D; used Apidra | match | Blogged about Avandia's heart-related problems | Whose blog 'Diabetes Update' has multiple articles about Avandia's problems | match | Stated in one comment that the Dollar General in her town is a stand-alone building more than 1 year old | Dollar General in Gill (Greenfield) opened in 2013 winter and is a stand-alone building | match |
You be the judge.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 16:54:49 GMT -5
Both owned Mannkind and have sold it. Both think they know more than they do about Afrezza.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 16:55:15 GMT -5
awesome detective work!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 16:55:47 GMT -5
Both owned Mannkind and have sold it. Both think they know more than they do about Afrezza. 2nd the 2nd note - Both think they know more than they do about Afrezza.
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Post by gomnkd on Mar 23, 2015 17:35:26 GMT -5
Both engage in soft bashing, passive aggression under the guise of being fair, balanced and neutral.
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Post by compound26 on Mar 23, 2015 17:44:37 GMT -5
Not sure whether the information in the site referenced below is useful or reliable, but decided to just post the link here for your reference: www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/ndo/record_view_open.asp?newDrugID=4631Per the above-referenced website, the status in UK is as follows: UK launch Plans: Available only to registered users Actual UK launch date: [Blank]
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Post by jpg on Mar 23, 2015 17:48:14 GMT -5
Those would be some rather impressive coincidences... The moralistic undertone of both personas does match but I will argue the other side of this and say Jenny cannot be PA. It could or would be toxic to 'diabetic Jenny' though and I doubt she would risk penning these PA articles as, if discovered, many of her diabetic follower who reads her PA stuff would be shocked and she would loose her neutrality and become just one of the investors or 'pay per click' trolls like those guys over at MF feeding off Mannkind. PA acts as a insider who understands and profits from diabetic related biotech and a very few other stocks (look at the other stocks PA talks about). Contrast that to Jenny who says she dislikes the investment world and sold off her stake in Mannkind (at a substantial profit from the dates she gives though...) because she wants to stay neutral. The PA stuff could only be politely defined as soft bashing according to many including George Rho who called out PA as a fake in one of PAs recent pieces: seekingalpha.com/article/2950346-more-insight-into-mannkinds-near-term-profitabilityAs you can tell George Rho is not holding any punches in the comments section of his response to PA and to me he makes a very good case for why he is saying what he is saying. Why would 'diabetic Jenny' even want to be involved in this type of stuff? She states she simply wants to be a friend and advisor to individual diabetics who need honest and trustworthy guidance (I am paraphrasing but that is want her reputation seems to be?). She would not risk it by writing shady boiler room SA articles for a few 'pay per click $' or some even shadier deal with a third party who has his own agenda (as many of us suspect PA has: you don't focus constantly on one stock if you don't have some financial angle?). Very interesting distraction! Thank you.
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Post by kball on Mar 23, 2015 19:45:36 GMT -5
So we're embarking on a witch hunt? I'm out
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Post by jpg on Mar 23, 2015 19:52:15 GMT -5
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Post by BlueCat on Mar 23, 2015 20:30:31 GMT -5
So we're embarking on a witch hunt? I'm out Although I am often curious to connect the various IDs, I'm with kball on this one. Especially with residence/location listed, etc. Recommend this group let it go and respond to the respective identities based on their merit (or not.)
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Who is PA?
Mar 23, 2015 21:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by savzak on Mar 23, 2015 21:20:25 GMT -5
So we're embarking on a witch hunt? I'm out I have no interest in this so "I'm out" too. But it's not a witch hunt. It's completely harmless. Were I interested, I'd participate. JPG is right...words have meaning. I say, leave people who are doing no harm to others alone.
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Post by BlueCat on Mar 23, 2015 21:25:36 GMT -5
I will say that there are times when an individual has become a public persona, and may have a conflict of interest or falsified credentials, in which case, I would believe its fair to call the conflict out.
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Post by jpg on Mar 23, 2015 23:27:52 GMT -5
I will say that there are times when an individual has become a public persona, and may have a conflict of interest or falsified credentials, in which case, I would believe its fair to call the conflict out. An anonymous author who repeatedly and frequently posts analysis and opinion about a publicly traded company on a widely read news forum like Seeking Alpha is obviously a public persona (we just don't know who this public person is...). Not having the right to question who is behind these articles would in my mind be an extraordinary asymmetry and unfair to those who read these articles and who cry foul as to the true motivation (and knowledge) of this author. At the same time the other person mention is, according to many, one of the most influential 'patient/ self educated diabetic expert' authors in the US who has written many books on the topic and who says she has 0 conflict of interest in all she does. That would also certain qualify her as a public persona and if the above insinuations were true it would be 'material'. Not exactly Pulitzer Prize stuff but to me almost as interesting as who AF allegedly 'works with' on his calls. Will I spend a lot of time on this: no. But I will support the right of those who want to take a look at this and will gladly occasionally participate if this tread continues in a polite respectful manner as seems to be happening so far. Those not interested need not read or participate obviously.
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Post by babaoriley on Mar 24, 2015 2:11:52 GMT -5
Both owned Mannkind and have sold it. Both think they know more than they do about Afrezza. 2nd the 2nd note - Both think they know more than they do about Afrezza.
Many here think they know more about MNKD stock than they do, although many have learned a lot over the last 11 months. What does anyone know about anything, really? You can know only so much, and that's not really very much; the rest is not really known, but just perceived to be known. Possessing the perception of knowing is dangerous. So many things, including the "truth" or "falsity" of any number of things, depends so much on the perspective of the person making the decision. Should I have started a new thread with the pretentious, psuedo-metaphysical crap I've just spewed above? Have I lost my mind?
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Post by harryx1 on Mar 24, 2015 8:57:00 GMT -5
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