Neurological Correlates

Is this a perfect drug? No. From an industry perspective, this is the perfect storm: you have the market data already. You know how big the market is. You know pretty much about any other side effects (except the heart binding, which is eliminated). You know market acceptability. You know safety and efficacy — if the heart receptor binding is eliminated.. . . And, you know mode of action, pretty much — that’s better than 90% of the drugs out there that work, but we have no idea why. The FDA and medical establishment still seems to think that body fat deposition is predominantly a matter of lifestyle choice — and so they are “eat less exercise more” focused rather than on getting this anti-obesity med throught the clinic and reversing the diabetes tidal wave.

And, you have virtually no competition in probably the largest therapeutic area ever (but who knows what’s coming up on the heels of lorcaserin.)

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 I don’t know whether killing a hawk with a 9-iron
was truly animal cruelty or just a really dumb way an upset pro golfer used to banish a hawk who was interrupting the filming of a golf instructional video.
Regardless, the reports don’t indicate that John Henry “Tripp” Isenhour III was launching golf balls at the hawk [...]

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