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Yeah, it's after puberty -- but are you so sure it would be hard to miss? Small effects with lots of confounding variables and an enormous profit incentive to m

Yeah, it's after puberty -- but are you so sure it would be hard to miss? Small effects with lots of confounding variables and an enormous profit incentive to miss seem easy to miss.

scythe 4y ago
In order to do due diligence for this reply, I typed "finasteride" into Google Scholar, and the first suggestion was "finasteride side effects", which brings up 20,500 results, including highly cited papers dealing specifically with sexual side effects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743609515337863 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174360951... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609515335566 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17436... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1557988314538445 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15579883145384... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028219325993 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001502821... I think that in that context, it would be hard to miss!