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What a condescending douchebag thing to say. Leftists never engage in conspiracy theories either, the "OK" hand symbol = white supremacy definitely isn't a retarded left-wing conspiracy.
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More boomers acting like online threats aren't just what happens to everyone every day over any old bullshit. So sick of the "muh death threats" narrative with these fucking people. Someone sent me multiple death threats just the other day because I was shit talking a Men's Rights Activist on Youtube and his fans got buttrammed.
Fuck outta here with that. Anybody who acts like online death threats are a "women's issue" is a fucking douche.
I haven't looked too much into this Corcept thing but I don't understand the conspiracy.
Smaller pharma companies find private investment quite frequently; while there is a lot of risk in a totally new start-up, Corcept was working with a drug that was already approved by the FDA, they apparently just use a somewhat higher dose and for a different treatment. Anecdotally, my advisor's post-doctoral advisor founded a pharma start-up for a completely new drug with a completely new mechanism of action, and despite the higher risk still managed to secure 9 figures of private investment prior to clinical approval. Drugs can be an extremely lucrative source of private investment because the government grants monopolies to the victors. Just looking at the Wikipedia article on Corcept, they charge substantially more than Danco does for the exact same drug. This is why Warren Buffet infamously only buys companies that provide him a monopoly.
I don't understand what Ford's employment has to do with anything. So she worked there from 2006-2012 as a statistician, beginning 8 years after Corcept's founding and 6 years after the drug was initially approved for abortion. It sounds like she was ultimately an employee rather than someone that was absolutely critical to the drug's development and success. She's listed as an author on six pages on the company site, though four of the six are for an unrelated drug, and for its effects on weight loss/gain. She probably was given some CORT stock options, which she may or may not still hold. How does any of that feed into abortion? From what I can find online, their monopoly on the drug's use to treat the rare disease ends next year; THAT'S the kind of thing CORT-holders are going to be concerned about, not whether or not an abortion ban will effect anything. In fact, if anything a ban of the drug for use in abortions should excite investors because it means Danco presumably changes business/shuts down and Corcept remains the sole producer of the drug in the USA.
Is 9 figures enough for 14 years. I'm not saying they couldn't, but Politifact doesn't address it. Also, like I said, changes now likely have now effect on her bank account. But we're talking a much more proximal connection than some vague memories from the 80s.
You know poorly legislation can be written. Korlym could be at risk because it is the same drug and I don't think it's the only treatment option. It could be banned so as not to be used for "off label use". Not that I think that would happen anyway but the left is hysterical right now.
BO: Learn the difference between a conspiracy (involves a group, planning, etc) and the idea that individuals respond to incentives (psychological, financial, etc).
I can agree with this, as I have received death threats over anime reviews.
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More boomers acting like online threats aren't just what happens to everyone every day over any old bullshit. So sick of the "muh death threats" narrative with these fucking people. Someone sent me multiple death threats just the other day because I was shit talking a Men's Rights Activist on Youtube and his fans got buttrammed.
Fuck outta here with that. Anybody who acts like online death threats are a "women's issue" is a fucking douche.
Who said anything about being funded "by abortionists"?
I would say that's a nice strawman but you would likely find it in the comments at infowars or something. I think it's much less complicated of a process. Ford, like most psychologists, is a raging liberal. She's afraid of the loss "reproductive Rights". Also, having worked at this company, knows that former and maybe current colleagues may be at career risk if TRUMP DECLARES REPRODUCTIVE MARTIAL LAW. Now, in the "MeToo era", she alone has the power to stop Kavanaugh and stand against the forces of patriarchal evil! She will be hailed as the savior, and go down in the history books as standing up for truth and justice. #brave #gofundme #metoo
Edit: Found Corcept's original IPO announcement from 2004. That's all Politifact needed. Interestingly enough it looks like their initial product failed.
It's not a women's issue, and men can absolutely get death threats. I'm not sure how that fact somehow refutes what I've said...?
Well you weren't very clear about the funding question to begin with, except to insinuate that there had to be some kind of shady source of funding somewhere.
Saying that she has a conflict of interest because she might have friends in the abortion industry is kind of silly when she (and any female friends she might have) are already affected by potential reproductive regulations. There's nothing illegal about conflicts of interest anyways as long as they're properly reported, and having a friend financially impacted by a law is not any kind of meaningful conflict of interest unless the friend is paying her under the table as a lobbyist.
I don't think they're rare, but I do think that someone with a family and who's nationally (and internationally) visible in a high-profile case probably has more reasons to pause over death threats.
BO isn't usually like this, he's been going full Mort lately IMO.
In her Post interview, Ford said a group of boys from Georgetown Prep was at one of the beer-drinking sessions in an unsupervised house near Columbia Country Club, possibly in the summer of 1982. One of them was Kavanaugh, who she described as an acquaintance. At the time, she was 15, and he was 17.
Kavanaugh and his classmate Mark Judge had started drinking earlier than others, she said, and the two were "stumbling drunk" when they pushed her into a bedroom. She alleges that Kavanaugh laid on top of her, fumbling with her clothes and pressing his hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming. Only when Judge jumped on top of them was she able to run from the room and hide until she could flee the house, she said.
Her biggest fear afterward, she recalled 37 years later, was looking as if she had just been attacked. So she carried herself as if she wasn't. Down the stairs. Out the door. Onto the rest of her high school years, she said. On graduation day, she wore the required white dress and carried red roses. She told no one.
Koob added that as the alcohol in your blood is increasing, you may also be compelled to act out of character, thanks to the chemical changes in your brain.
“In the blackout zone, you could be dancing on a table in front of your boss, but the next day you’re not going to remember a thing,” he explained. But, and this is important to know, he said a blackout is “not permanent damage to the brain, but rather a gap in time” where the brain is not producing any memory.