Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
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When the scientific discoveries drop in about 50 years, you can expect another 20 years of development, approval, and commercialization. So if you are 10yo now, you will be 80yo taking your first pill. Hopefully that will not be too late for you.
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Yes if you 100% swallow the cultural requirement to have a full head of hair, then not having one is bad. But I don’t expect a journalist or academician to write from such a culturally specific point of view.
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You’re going to tell me that people are applying Rogaine so they don’t have to apply sunscreen? Hm yeah that is a well thought out argument when Rogaine is 10x more expensive.
No. The male hair loss remedy industry is entirely built around cosmetic vanity, not keeping warm.
I can sit here and tell you how hair can be host to different parasites or impair your vision while driving or get caught and pulled into power tools and is therefore a bad survival trait.
But let’s not be absolute morons.
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It's an article about curing baldness, all context is pre determined.
Like sure, if we're just bringing anything up, why care about baldness when I can't breathe underwater, or if I can't raise the dead?
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If scientists came up with a new treatment for multiple sclerosis, and an article mentioned “bad genetics” as one of the reasons people develop MS, that would be shitty, wouldn’t it? How is this different? Obviously in the context of that MS article, it’s “bad” to have MS and we want to cure it. But you wouldn’t shit on people who suffer from it by saying they have “bad genetics.” So how is it any different? It seems just as unnecessary and disrespectful here as it does there.
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I mean if it's a damaged or failed it's a bad gene. It caused ms!
It's not shitting on a person, it's discussing a condition.
I can understand that discussion can lead to eugenics style thoughts.
"Oh that person has tons of bad genes, they therefore are bad". That's wrong though, a person can have a super fucked up body but it doesn't change their value or goodness.
When discussing a condition, the genes that improve or cause that condition can be described as good or bad.
Context matters.
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It’s judgmental language and totally unnecessary.
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It's a bad gene. It's literally the contextually appropriate description of a factor involved in a situation.
Sorry it hurts your feelings
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Oh the last resort of he with no other leg to stand on: the hurt feelings bullshit. I’m not bald and my
feelings are not hurt. I do care about quality writing though and this is not that. Your gyrations of justification have ceased being fun to watch. You believe you’re laying out some kind of hard logic progression but it amounts to: if one accepts a long string of assumptions, then naturally the word makes perfect sense. But that is not the tidy “if / then” mathematical proof you think it is but a bald declaration of your cultural values. I’m sorry that you think people suffering from diseases are bad. I’m not surprised to hear that you have eugenics notions in your head. -
You think a person's worth is tied to their genes. Pretty yuck. I disagreed and explained how.
For the record I was calling YOU out for linking a person to their genes, just not directly, trying to be courteous to the conversation.
Keep replying now, and you're just slapfighting. Not worth it. I said in the last comment our positions are well known and the conversation is functionally concluded.
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It reversed hair loss for me, I used to have a bald spot and I don't have one anymore.
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Alternately it was posited in the late 90s that those of us that will live to 150 are already alive, at 40 years old with current medical technology I’m pretty sure I can make it another 70 years if I take care of myself.
Assuming a continued exponential growth in medical advancement.
The actuality of it though is my 401k is built around a glorious death in the water wars.