Concerning my post from 2010, “The NEWS that is coming”…
That post was based on real information (unlike most of Iron_Man’s posts which are dredged up from his florid imagination), and I will explain part of it here. The rest of the information I will give to HairSite.
That post was based on information that came to my attention that provoked me to contact another HairSite HM forum poster (who is an attorney with a big law firm in New York).
This information indicated that certain American HT doctors may be deliberately interfering with the FDA applications of certain HM companies such as ARI (and previously Intercytex, and possibly others).
I am not accusing these HT doctors of doing anything illegal, but perhaps they are doing something unethical. In fact, we can’t publicly accuse anyone specifically of doing anything, until we have all the facts, and that is exactly what it was our intent to get.
Under US law and FDA regulations, any medical doctor can lawfully contact the FDA and file a complaint or “comment”, criticizing any ongoing clinical trials for any medical reason. If the reasons given by the doctor writing the letter are seen as valid by the FDA (or even if the reasons are just “reasonable” or remotely “plausible” ), the FDA must investigate the claim and initiate some action to either change the clinical trial, force the company ocnducting the trials do provide additional or different data, or even end the clinical trial. Because the risk of inaction might put patients’ lives or health at risk, there is a strong presumed duty on the part of the FDA to investigate or take action on any complaint or comment made by a qualified expert.
In 2010, I and this formerly regular HairSite poster got the idea of filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Office of Biologicals in the FDA, to ask FDA to send us copies of any and all contact from any US hair transplant doctors, clinics, or even the ISHRS (or any doctor affiliated with ISHRS – I won’t mention any names here, but many of you will know some of the doctors I’m referring to.)
Under the FOIA law, the FDA would be obligated to release any relevant information to us. They could remove (redact) any proprietary information, e.g., trade secrets which a company wishes to keep confidential, of course, but if there was any contact from the listed doctors, or even from any HT doctor, they would have to give us at least a list of the communications and some of the details, e.g., subject matter, sender, etc.
In any event, in 2010, this attorney and I were in contact and the plan was for him to file FOIA request. We had several discussions about this.
Some time went on and I understood from him he had filed the FOIA request with the FDA and was expecting a response.
Then after about 6 months or so he disappeared from HairSite. I waited a long time and expected him to reappear with the infrmation, and he never did. I have not been in contact with him since sometime in early 2011, I think.
I will share his screen name with HairSite. Unfortunately I lost his real name and contact information in one of my BlackBerrys which broke.
So, my post was based on some very valid facts of a plan we did have to expose certain people in the US hair transplant industry who we believed (and I still believe) are trying to slow down the progress of clinical trials being conducted by companies like Aderans, increase the bureacratic oversight, raise concerns about health problems like “tumors” associated with HM experiments, and increase the costs of the clinical trials, ALL TO BUY TIME FOR THE HAIR TRANSPLANT DOCTORS AND THEIR INDUSTRY.
These HT doctors know that HM is coming, but we believe they are trying to slow it down by working behind the scenes to throw some spanners in the approval process.
I repeat: these doctors KNOW they cannot stop HM, but they KNOW THEY CAN SLOW IT DOWN, and that would buy them a lot of time to keep peddling harmful and poor HT.
Now, the typical refrain of many HairSite forum members here, which frankly I’m tired of hearing because it is so repetetive and doesn’t even make any sense, is “Why would HT doctors try to slow down HM when they can all be part of it, and they could all do it in their offices and it’ll just bring extra business to them and they’ll love the H*ll out of it???”
There you are absolutely wrong!
Let me put an end to that faulty line of reasoning once and for all.
If ARI were to enter the market with a workable HM procedure, all HT doctors would NOT benefit from it, because ARI has a specific agreement with Bosley, in fact, Bosley is part of ARI.
All those HT doctors and clinics which are not part of Bosley would be completely at Bosley’s and ARI’s mercy, and there is no reason at all to believe that Bosley and ARI would “cut them in” and license the procedure to them, or share it with them in any way. Why would they, when they could easily service all patients within their own network?
This reason is PRECISELY why US hair transplant doctors, we believe, are secretly working behind the scenes to slow down, or block any and all US-based HM trials.
Same reasoning applies to RepliCel, of course. Only at the time my friend filed the FOIA request, we didn’t knout RepliCel.
Another thing: Some will ask, if some US hair transplant docs are secretly working to slow down or sabotage HM trials, then why doesn’t the victim (e.g., ARI or whoever) come out publicly and “out” them?
Answer: They can’t do this, otherwise they will be accused by the FDA of interfering with the integrity of the trials and approval process and trying to undermine established procedures intended to protect patients.
If anyone has any questions for me about this, please post them here.
For Iron_Man – I understand why you are bumped up my post. You are trying (desperately) to show that I, too, make useless posts on this board, and that I am the equivalent of you.
I know I am not. Your history shows you to be a big, big SPAMMER here on this board. You constantly sabotage threads with irrelevant information. I believe your spamming this forum with irrelevant information is DELIBERATE… you know exactly what you are doing – meaning that you have a conscious, deliberate agenda to ruin this forum. You know exactly what you are doing.
I have not even begun to deal with you, and your forum-sabotaging spam, but I dare you to BRING IT, and I will.
This goes for that forum disruptor, 2020, too.
That is all.