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This is my last post here, and a honest rant from an Italian man fed up with wop scams targeting foreigners.
You really don't know what corporate Italy is. Take the stereotyped greediness and evil of corporate America, multiply it many, many times: there you have corporate Italy. Italians have a very peculiar 'way of life': what doesn't affect directly them, their family or their friends, is none of their business. Italians also love money and are lazy. This means that an Italian-led corporation like Fidia will always try to scam people in a way or the other as soon as there's no personal interest in doing things properly and honestly.
The only barrier to this kind of despicable behavior is EU-German regulations. When the big Euro emperor strikes in, Italians bow, shake and screech like rats found out in the basement, and follow the rules and quality standards. This is why the food industry (highly regulated) works well in Italy and exports are high quality.
The hair loss/growth industry is highly unregulated. It just takes a half-assed in vitro study (or worse, invalid statistical inferences), passing the non toxicity tests (imposed by the EU, because Italians wouldn't ever have time for that) and a lotion comes out, promising the cure for hair loss. Italy has a very long history of hair growth snake oils; some of these, like infamous Crescina, eventually became part of the popular culture and are widely used as exemplifications of snake oils.
Dr. Brotzu may or may not be a legit doctor. No one can know that. What I can tell with great confidence is that Fidia is evil by default. Whatever comes out of an Italian corporation do not listen, because it's never the truth unless they are being coerced by the EU.
Fidia is evil and lazy and will probably never do a statement regarding Brotzu lotion. If they do, it will be half-assed exactly like the presentation. Brotzu's research may or may not be legit; what is almost certain is that Fidia will never make a working product. They will make a cheap product at a very high price, because effectiveness is none of their business (remember: it doesn't affect them nor their friends). This also explains why they are allegedly being aggressive with those replicating Brotzu's research: they just want the money.
Never, EVER trust Italians when there's no close supervision by a powerful authority and there's no direct (i.e. personal) interest from their point of view.
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