Honestly, I read everything and I think "Paul Phoenix" has a little reason. Better treatments are needed than Propecia to treat male pattern baldness. I think you know it too.
Propecia is a joke. 1) Shedding, 2) Daily treatment 3) Sexual and neurological side effects. Nobody likes Finasteride man...
I think that Shiseido and Follica can help us a lot in the very near future and away from Propecia for at least a season.
Except not once did I disagree that better treatments than propecia are needed.
His claim was that "millions" of men are left with side effects.
As that STATS report shows, as do others, fewer than a million people are even pursuing professional treatment
at all. The drug is still far lower risk than other, more popular medications like birth control pills and most men who aren't taking finasteride for hairloss, but for prostate problems (far more users), are curiously NOT complaining relentlessly about "sides".
Instead, he strawmans by showing me these studies or government updates to the warning labels regarding side effects.
Never said it couldn't have side effects, never said we don't need anything better.
But anyone who, given the abundance of data we can find that shows most men aren't pursuing treatment simply because they don't care, and instead suggests it's because of crippling, highly-prevalent side effects — is full of sh*t and coping with the unfortunate reality that we are, in fact,
not terribly great in number.