That's what I thought so too before I knew how fcked up the pharma business is.
If you have time, read this:
https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/risky-drugs-why-fda-cannot-be-trusted
"The bar for “safe” is equally low, and over the past 30 years, approved drugs have caused an epidemic of harmful side effects, even when properly prescribed."
"Prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death"
"This evidence indicates why we can no longer trust the FDA to carry out its historic mission to protect the public from harmful and ineffective drugs. Strong public demand that government “do something” about periodic drug disasters has played a central role in developing the FDA.
2 Yet close, constant contact by companies with FDA staff and officials has contributed to vague, minimal criteria of what “safe” and “effective” mean."
"The FDA also legitimates industry efforts to lower and widen criteria prescribing drugs, known by critics as “
the selling of sickness.”
https://www.mercola.com/downloads/bonus/the-FDA-exposed/default.aspx Download the report, this goes even deeper in what the problems are.
Also the new "studies" about propecia/fina are done by special interests like hair transplant surgeons,... And of course, we don't know how trustworthy these studies are.
Another thing you should look into is how pharma is allowed to do studies, if I remember correctly they can conduct unlimited amount of tests. So if 1/100 has favourable results, that study can be used for FDA approval.
Again, if fina is so safe, why is the internet FULL of people stating various side effects? It's almost every week we have new threads popping up about guys experiencing side effects. Only fools believe the official studies now. FDA an big pharma are the same beast, and they do not have your best interests at heart.
People are willfully blind and see an attack on fina as a personal attack because they are emotionally invested and hopeless in their battle against hairloss. I was one of them too.
