Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Trust me...they will have to test it on animals simply to be sure that it doesn't have negative side effects. I have never heard of a drug that the FDA approved for human use that had not been given first to lab animals. And lab animals are not enough. Thalidamide worked fine in rats but caused grotesque birth defects in humans simply because rats are not like humans in every regard. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:25 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] California bashing - was Fires Actually I have a friend at the Salk Institute that is working on software just like that. It will be able to predict the interaction of brain neruons with drugs. The drug companies are going nuts trying to win him into their camp. His software requires the biggest Supercomputers on the planet. He tests the biggest of IBM's mainframes before they play Kasparov. (ASCII White, Deep Blue, etc.). His software gives their computers something to sink their teeth into. Oh, and he's switching to G5 Macs and OS X. :-) On Oct 30, 2003, at 8:48 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > I've always been astounded that the Bob Barkers of the > world think that people can program a computer to determine if a drug > is > going to work. - -- Eric A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers, and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html