They did know that it causes side effects that is a fact however the term PFS didn’t come about until a much later date to describe the syndrome.
The company stinks of corruption and that goes along for all pharmaceutical companies they are all up to their necks in it. They manipulate data all the time to bypass FDA regulations but sure who wouldn’t when they are given free reign over their own studies. It’s like someone doing a test in high school and them having the answers right beside them of course their going to take advantage of the system if it’s handed to them on a plate.
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The number of participants of the surveys isn’t even close to the real numbers of this syndrome, like I said a large number haven’t identified that finasteride is the cause to their current health problems or even know this syndrome exists.
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https://youtu.be/xAZ3-t7vJeg
That should clear this up, they knew full well the implications and chose to look the other way this was only a small study. -
At the time of the class action lawsuit they couldn’t use Robert Melcangi’s data and basically had nothing to back up their claims except from testimonies that can be easily discredited as psychosomatic.