Re:Study of falling sperm counts finds 'alarming' levels of ...
by jjoonathan on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @01:37PM
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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 miss seem easy to miss.
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Re:Study of falling sperm counts finds 'alarming' levels of ...
by scythe on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:46PM
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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/S174360951...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17436...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15579883145384...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001502821...
I think that in that context, it would be hard to miss!