And a batch of seismologists can be paraded, as they were this week, to promise rather rashly that there will be no earthquake.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

In stark contrast to ImClone, which rashly tested Erbitux in only 120 patients with no control group, AstraZeneca enrolled 2, 000 patients in late-stage trials to compare how long patients survive on a combination of chemotherapy and Iressa versus chemo and a placebo.

FORBES: Modesty ablaze