That’s the fact, we can’t obtain so much information from this study, they didn’t describe how much regrowth and where, so all the information are these crappy photos. However I don’t think this article is fake, just think, how many possibilities are there for discover (accidentally, with a fake/joke) that wounding/burn can regrowth hair? Furthermore in 1986.
The example of livestock branding it’s not valid to me. Not all type of woundings can regrowth hair, it’s very important the wounding depth and I don’t think that the hot iron does only a superficial wounding (also they do this action at very high temperatures, another important variable I think).
» okay, I agree that sometimes, things are not what they seem, and we must
» investigate if the opposite is true.
» Precisely, this is what I did.
» When I read this article, at first, I said: oh, how interesting, a burn
» can grow hair. But then, I considered another possibility, a hidden truth:
» this could be a fake. And indeed I have found a few reasons to doubt of
» this event’s authenticity.
»
» Of course I don’t know if this is a fake or not, but I would be cautious
» before setting my scalp on fire trying to emulate that old man’s deed.
»
» You are right, when cattle is marked with red-hot iron, they don’t grow
» hair there. Probably even mice won’t grow hair if they are marked this
» way.
»
» Just for completeness, we could consider another posibility: that the old
» man did grew hair around the burn site, but not on the burn site. I mean,
» at the burn site, the miniaturized follicles were totally destroyed, and
» incapable of creating hair anymore. But around the burn site, the
» miniaturized follicles benefitted from the local immunosupression, and
» nutrients excess, and thus, started producing terminal hair. But the
» article gives no details, so its pretty worthless.
»
» » the best method for investigating one’s beliefs is as soon as we have
» » thought of something,try to see in what way the contrary is true.Maybe
» » those who succeed best in their enterprises do not merely call upon
» their
» » virtues and talents,but also in some way are able to make use of their
» » defects,as,for instance,the neurotic psychoanalyst who employs his
» defect
» » in the service of his enterprise.We need a genious who is very
» frustated
» » and unhappy because he is bald… Here gathered, we who have no
» knowledge
» » about this affairs from scientific aspect,call our information common
» » sense,and those who have knowledge,the educated man in this affairs,are
» » calling their information knowledge.We need the bald genius who knows
» how
» » little knowledge he has and how useless is his common sense for solving
» » uncommon problems