Where are all these Turks coming from all of a sudden?
Samumed burner accounts jumping in since you dropped the medium link, we're compromised boys, wrap it up.
I read the article, and assuming they aren't schizo (i.e.
they don't always read WAY too much into every human interaction like they're nick cage in national treasure, they don't always believe everyone is "sending messages" with their eyebrows and glances, they don't always think they are being followed with ClA level surveillance and that asian gangsters aren't always trying to kill them), it's interesting. According to them though, the company should have imploded by now, but it's still around (and soon to release sm data). They also just hired on the former Head of Early Oncology Development and Clinical Research at Pfizer as Chief Medical Officer. Why would they do this if the whole thing was a lie and they were trying to keep everything quiet and in-house? Makes it even more interesting.
This is basically one side of "a story", that may or may not have even happened in the first place. I'm not discrediting them though. It could actually be that deep and I might have called it early, aliens might actually be real. And if it does turn out this is true, showing a fake video of the alzheimer's patient getting better and walking again is pretty fucked up.
It could also just be that the people and culture are sh*t, osteo could be a dud (surprising them and ruining their path to market since it looks like they wanted to push this one out of the gate first), but SM and their others still work.
Also, I don't know much about how it's measured, but i'd assume that measuring objective pain in osteo trials is
hard. They might be able to take x-rays and say "Look!, see the spacing in the knee did grow", but if the patient doesn't feel the difference in pain or only very slightly, their trials by their specified endpoints would have "failed". (i.e. their drug physically fixed the knee, but doesn't decrease pain as much as they hoped)
Compared to SM trial, it's the easiest thing to measure. Did they grow hair?, Did they all turn into human size tumors with NW0 hairline's or do they need to shave it bro?
I'm not going to write off Samumed just yet, at least until SM results are released. It would be just as easy to find some pretty evil stories from inside Merck, but everyone still uses finasteride. But this definitely gets stored in the red flag pile. Good find.