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I'm very long Moderna - MRNA treatment platforms seem like such a powerful tool to have. They created one of the best COVID vaccines so far using their existing
by buildbot 5y ago
I'm very long Moderna - MRNA treatment platforms seem like such a powerful tool to have. They created one of the best COVID vaccines so far using their existing platform, and have dozens of others in the pipeline for things like cancer and HIV. While sure there is a risk that these MRNA treatments don't work as well as the MRNA COVID vaccine, but I think the smart money is on many of them performing well.
- ethbr0 5y agoThe "smart money"? Interesting turn of phrase, when we're talking about screwing with one of the most complex, dynamic systems in the world (us, and specifically immune response). The smart money is probably insider information. Anyone else is guessing about how dice came up for a few million years worth of rolls. (Edit: Enjoying the knee-jerk reaction that I'm anti-vax(?))
- fny 5y agoSmart money is a well known phrase used to refer to institutional investors. It's not a turn of phrase.
- newswasboring 5y agoIf you are not anti-vax I have no idea what you are talking about. There is no pro-vax position I can derive from this
- ethbr0 5y agoIt's a vaccination-agnostic comment, about how the complexity of immunological processes make the claim that any drug development involving them is "likely" a hilariously reductive statement. As an analogy, that's kind of like saying the Wright Flyer flew, so smart money is on the Wright Company being successful. (Except if aerodynamics were about 1000x more complex) Predicting anything in drug discovery from a financial standpoint is laughably imprecise.
- negsd 5y agoIt's a cult. Wake up.