No, I'm making the very general point that reliably estimating the magnitude of an effect in biological research requires a control group...
To illustrate
that point, I provided an example of just one relevant uncontrolled factor that also obviously applies to HMI-115, in picture form to make it easier.
I know this is an alternative medicine forum, but I can't believe I've got to make the case that control groups are really important in research
edit: I'll make the point even clearer so there's no confusion:
1. monkeys have hair shedding cycles that significantly affect hair growth at any given point in time
(that was supposed to be the obvious takeaway from the finasteride chart placebo group)
2. knowing this, you can't take growth over a 6 month period and do a simple linear projection into the distant future. It would be very dubious to do so with a control group, but is 100% pseudoscience without one
3. so either
@pegasus2 didn't know any better, or was being intentionally misleading