If Frazier has been as dishonest with Merck as Obama has been in government, we are in for a rude awakening. Can't believe the lies and selective approach Obama takes to what is supposed to be law. I very much hope Frazier has not done such things at Merck but we never really know until it's too late.
Why does every board digress into some b!tch about Obama? Nothing really to do with Merck or these forums. Stick pins in your Obama voodoo doll if you want to do something productive.
So.... what you are predicting is that Obama will still be president February 2016.
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Ouch...someone has Obama sensitivity syndrome.
2016 is Hilary vs. a Rubio/Christie/Cruz/Dowdy possibly plus a 3rd party candidate....
By then most working and retired Americans will be extremely upset with their very crumby and very expensive Obama healthcare. A new reformed approach will top the debate topics.....along with preventing total financial collapse that it may bring.
Ouch...someone has a head-up-their-a$s syndrome. What the previous poster was trying to explain is that this is a Merck forum, not an "I'm an angry old white man who still cannot come to terms with Obama getting elected TWICE" forum. It's ok to hate Obama, but somehow it is entirely irrelevant to this entire forum. Focus: Merck.
Yes Alan Sachs was an idiot as was Peter, but once Merck scientists were put on siRNA major advances were made . Several candidates ready to go in the short term, lots of potential for more. A huge opportunity in novel space that Roger always talks about is right under his nose and it's going to be squandered. A chance for Merck to lead in a new area and we will piss it away. It's not just a platform technology anymore , don't believe all the propaganda that you hear. The end of siRNA is politically beneficial for some key leaders in MRL so they have jumped on the bandwagon.
You couldn't be more wrong. - entire MRL effort focused in delivery, and what has been developed is years ahead of anyone else in the field .
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Amgen "hated" siRNA technology. Therefore, siRNA was DOA as soon as Roger arrived. Agree that a lot of progress made once Merck scientists put on it. Keeping a small presence in it would be a strategic play. Any chance something / some people in siRNA will survive?
What a waste.
In 2016 Merck will "lean and mean" and ready for a takeover
Start of 2016:
1) Major accounting discrepancies hit the media. It starts as a small whistleblower investigation, and eventually makes its' way to CNBC and Wall Street Journal. Merck will be caught red-handed cooking the books, Enron style. Investors were lied to for several straight quarters.
2) Last few half-functional remnants of MRL R&D sold off in their entirety to Chinese outfits, as Merck corporate struggles desperately to prop up their short-term cash reserves. The 1 or 2 "gems" left in the MRL pipeline are then tested on Chinese death-row prisoners. Candidate compounds prematurely execute 20% of the prisoners dosed.
3) Frasier, Perlmutter, and Kellogg all retire within a 2 month period.
4) Accounting scandal continues to grow. Merck files for Chapter 11, while simultaneously announcing a 40% layoff of the already skeletal workforce.
5) Peter Kim resurfaces to write an editorial in the New York Times. He blasts the "interpretation" of the Chinese death-row study (#3 above). "In reality, only 18% of the prisoners died due to the sold-off MRL compounds", he writes. "When taken as directed, these compounds are an important therapeutic regimen in the management of chronic pain. The stupor and subsequent coma they induce is highly effective at mitigating the pain signals these patients experienced previously".
6) End of 2016: Following Foxconn's example, Merck erects catch-nets above sidewalks of its' remaining buildings, to mitigate the 5-fold increase in employees jumping to their deaths. Foxconn sues Merck for catch-net patent infringement. Ken Frasier comes out of recent retirement to head up Merck's catch-net defense.
7) Merck sends Holiday greetings to its remaining employees. Everyone gets a "Be Well" coffee mug and a year's supply of Kool-Aid. Happy 2017!
More relevant: What will Merck look like on Jan 1st, 2014?
How good are you at describing what Merck will look like by first quarter 2016?
