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Ayan
@gmo
Sundays are for Science Let’s get into itttt
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
are you on tiktok?! send it to me so i can followww!!!
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EulerLagrangodamus
@eulerlagrange.eth
I think Bill Gates used a bad example. The NIH doesn’t consider normal male balding (defer to @hairdao) as a disease. So it actually gets very little funding. I wouldn’t want to lose my hair, I’m happy Andrew rose up as a leader to organize the movement. Man has a lab in NYC and everything. “Hair is capital” - @alok
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Ayan
@gmo
I appreciate that you and @hairdao want to solve this. It’s both scientifically interesting and impacts a lot of people, but the idea that it’s an underfunded space… guys… come on We have an actual global antimicrobial resistance crisis that threatens to propel us into a POST-ANTIBIOTIC ERA getting nowhere near the amount of overall funding hair loss is Tuberculosis is the LEADING cause of DEATH from a single infectious agent…it was momentarily displaced by Covid-19 and is now back to being #1…yet nowhere nearrr the amount of overall funding of hair loss Just say you want to work on a challenging space with lucrative potential. We don’t have to pretend there’s a “huge funding gap” NIH is not at all a limiting factor for hair loss funding: https://www.astuteanalytica.com/industry-report/hair-transplant-market https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/hair-loss-growth-treatments-and-products-market-101887 https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/alopecia-market
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EulerLagrangodamus
@eulerlagrange.eth
None of the money spent goes to research/funding. It’s private transactions. If you talk to guys that go through balding it is not a pleasant experience. I’ve heard stories where they can’t even look at themselves in the mirror. Yes there is a lot of money to be made, but the only way you can say it’s not a moral win is if either: 1. suffering of men is somehow not valid, 2. it’s zero sum with more important things. I don’t think it is zero sum since @hairdao is at the cutting edge and had to get funding from crypto VCs. …
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EulerLagrangodamus
@eulerlagrange.eth
I raised venture capital, there is a certain level of return that’s expected from that in the success case. Who am i making money for? In the US VCs get their money from college endowments, retirement funds etc.
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Ayan
@gmo
If you can be less defensive. You’ll see I’m taking my own time to share free constructive information. 🤷🏽♀️
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Ayan
@gmo
1. If you read my response again, I made no comment about morality or invalidating men’s suffering. Women also suffer from hair loss. I simply said there isn’t a funding gap and lots of money is going into research. 2. Most therapeutics need major private funding to actually do anything and go beyond the lab. Hair loss is a multibillion dollar industry where therapeutics, clinical trials, big pharma, FDA approval etc. is being pursued, very well funded and delivering regularly 3. That is precisely the reason new antibiotic research and Tuberculosis is not well funded. Because there isn’t commercial interest. You’re right, I wouldn’t want a life saving therapeutic to be tied to profit margins. Unfortunately, that’s already the case and a big part of why we are facing these problems.
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