Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
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License and release it into the public domain: research, methods, processes, patents—the whole deal.
Privatizing medicine, even elective medicine, just ensures predation.
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People gotta start down the road of anti-capitalism somewhere, right?
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Hair loss remedies are always criticized on the grounds that you need to continue using them to continue seeing the benefits.
I don’t know why this complaint surfaces for hair loss medications in particular, when a lot of things are like this. Insulin. Depression drugs. All supplements. Etc.
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Hair loss is caused by a multitude of factors, including aging, stress, hormonal imbalances and bad genetics.
“Bad” genetics?! Damn, that’s a little fucking judgmental for what is ultimately just a cosmetic issue.
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Dude, if this upsets you, consider that there are promising signs we may be able to significantly slow or even reverse aging itself within the next 50 years. This means that out of the 10 or 20 thousand generations of humans there have been since our origin, everyone reading this will miss out on immortality by about 2.
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I'm not following. Making the results public domain doesn't prohibit private companies from manufacturing for profit.
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I'm bald and started shaving my head as soon as I noticed it was thinning (19 yrs old). I like the lack of maintenance and I think I look good with a bald head. \o/
Wouldn't change it tbh.
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No, you got it. It's not about prohibiting profit, it's about prohibiting the exclusive ability to profit.
Think of generic medicines (in the US) versus brand equivalents and how vast their cost difference is.
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Is Betteridges Law dead?
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PUT ON THE WIG DEGENERATE
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Until you're ready for your old man era, presumably.
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It's also only preventative, seems like this is more reversal.
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I had postcard white-guy Jesus hair, hanging to the middle of my back, straight and reddish blond. A beard too. I went bald in my mid-40s and now what's left around the fringes is white. People who see pictures of me from back in the day don't recognize me.
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It works, but not all that well. The hair that comes back tends to be really thin.
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Which is reasonable in principle, but when they sell the exclusivity, they're and to put that money back into their research expenses.
I'm okay with public money going to funding research projects that become private profit for a limited time. I'm a capitalist system, which is what we're operating in, this seems to be the most effective. Government partially funds otherwise unprofitable R&D, companies make the product, and ordinary people are able to buy it at reasonable prices, and once exclusivity ends, anyone can make it.
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Better watch out, the king of the US government is done with all the queers and chronically ill the baldies are next.
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Lack of maintenance? Don't you have to shave your head regularly?
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Hey, I'm glad you can pull it off! I would look really weird with a shaved head. I would think there's still maintenance involved though. How often do you have to shave it?
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It also impacts libido
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Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber... I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.
