ImetelChat

Fishermanagents, I for one have admired and greatly appreciated your ability and willingness to confront those on the YMB and SA that do not have the success of Imetelstat and Geron or the patients in mind. I hope you are able to continue doing that as people do need to understand what these people are about and what is really going on in this space. I personally will rarely go back to these boards again to read their posts. There doesn't seem to be adequate means to keep the focus constructively on the science, CTs, conference presentations, new findings, patients considerations or even rational investment thoughts. Thanks again for all your efforts and other contributors adding value to your site.

Hunt,

I am in agreement with your post. What I do not understand about the SA board is the constant negative spin placed on the stock and the apparent high degree of anxiety. As far as I am concerned the best news GERN shareholders have received in a long time is the AML study. I see that study as a highly positive development. That study, in other words, is a strong indication that IMET has a future, that it is a unique drug with unusual properties that may be used in multiple indications, by itself or in combination with other drugs. It is also worth noting that MF, MDS and AML all present high unmet needs. Nothing to date cures these disorders or sends them into prolonged remissions. These are also rapidly developing markets due to the increased age of the general population. This is true not only in the United States but in other developed countries. None of this, obviously, means IMET is a bound to be approved as there are no guarantees whatsoever in that regard, but what more can a reasonable investor expect from a two dollar stock?

Thanks, sargasso, it’s nice you can state those constructive thoughts on ImetelChat without any need for spin or worry about being harassed by those with dishonest intentions. It’s not like we don’t know what they are up to with these sinister and lame comments. They always seem to increase in number, coming out of the woodwork the closer we get to more positive news and significant developments, so maybe it is a positive indicator of important things to come.

SA has some great posters. It is interesting to see how negativity takes its turn just when real exciting things may happen on the short term (Q2). Let's stay focussed on the facts and information we can find. Critical discussions are important, as long we use arguments. Let's make sure we can proceed having good discussions here, while collecting the info we can find.

This is what I was referring to in my previous post. Wish to become depressed and bored at the same time? Read the SA posts on GERN. See below.

leviek

“I would say the amount of negative posters on Geron has dominated this board more then anytime in the 6 or 8 years we've been posting. Many of the generally positive posters seem to have been systematically aced out. It's pretty depressing reading all this stuff. By the way, just saying it is all reality is also wrong. The reality is we don't know.

Even good news, such as the Venetoclax combo research, is being shoved under the carpet.

We'll see pretty soon if all this negativism actually comes into play.”

03 Mar 2017

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3247824-ge ... es-revenue

Some have got a bit depressed indeed, although I think the venetoclax paper was fairly valued as being positive. Off course there were questions regarding how long it would take before such trials would start, and if they could start before imetelstat would be approved as a single drug. Maybe JnJ has sufficient material to convince the FDA or any other regulatory authority that they know sufficient about imetelstat that a combo trial could start on a responsible way.

From my simplistic view, all the negative feedback is based mostly on historical price action and mushrooms from there against the company, management, strategy and even the science, but all seems to rely on price action as the feeder into the FUD. Without that I doubt we would see so much negativity so I look forward to clarity on success of the science.

I'm not depressed about it, just frustrated by it. The negative posters are always negative, no balanced analysis on anything Geron, which for the most part is very positive. so do they truly care about the patients waiting in line, the company, the science? Honestly, I would have to say no. Can they really think the rest of us don't get the rhetoric, we know there is risk and can see the imperfections in the public activities. But if you have been around a patient with MF or any of the serious MPN diseases, you know this is seriously complex business with limited LE unless we have a breakthough, Imetelstat continues positively forward as the breakthrough and at the very least will be a giant step on that path for many.

It all begins with the patients, if this puts them on the path to recovery, everybody wins but the shorts. On SA and YMB, every positive comment and development expressed by a poster is immediately followed by a negative comment or several depending on how positive or good of an expression on the outlook. Yes, there are several awesome posters on SA, I appreciate them all but mostly, I will check ImetelChat for the important developments.