@sangan89 You are a moron.
You come here and on the other fora pretending to be Mr.Know-it-all and you know not even half of what you say.
First and foremost, Cronassial was a drug totally developed by FIDIA Farmaceutici laboratories, isolated almost randomly from bovine's brain. The fault of what happened with that drug is completely of our "dear" Italy's government (of that time), persuaded to bypass the laws of drug's standards which that drug never satisfied anyway in the first place (so theorically it was never meant to be on the market). Then, yes, FIDIA paid 50 millions to our Noble prize winner Montalcini which was a valid scientist of neurology. Montalcini so was "corrupted" to enphasize FIDIA's works on neurologic drugs, such as Cronassial. And this is it, then what happened is history.
The situation debated here does not start from FIDIA's labs, so in the first place it is totally different. Here we have a reputable doctor well known in all the island of Sardegna, whose father "just" discovered the cure to malaria. Just ro remind you, finasteride's and minoxidil's positive effect on Androgenetic Alopecia was discovered by accident while using those drugs respectively for BPH and heart circulation disease. This time, that lotion was first formulated to treat diabethic ulceras and after the positive results, Brotzu and his assistants (and NOT FIDIA'S LABORATORIES) saw an increase of leg hairs where the remedy was applied, and then they tried it to treat alopecia. Then, and only then, after patent and results published, a company acquired the rights. The company is FIDIA, re-founded 3 times after what happened with Cronassial, after 3 turnovers of administrations and researchers in general. This FIDIA is not the company who launched Cronassial. And even if it was so, the remedy we're talking is invented and discovered by Brotzu and his crew, who are not linked, as far as I know since I live nearby Policlinico, with any pharma company. This remedy does not come from Fidia's lab.
Your analogy is a pathethic way to try to prove your points right, it is a shame that you prefer your personal pride and ego over the risk of getting arrested by the postal police for what you are saying against the company in your last comments (from which I keep my distance far).
Also, from my personal PoV, all pharmaceutical companies are sharks swimming in this nasty market in the same way. If we search every single name of them all or remember from the newspapers, we'll find a lot of unethic moves. Just picking the first Google results of Merck and GSK (respectively Finasteride's and Dutasteride's inventors):
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/11/...rug-giant-took-long-path-to-vioxx-recall.html
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...thkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals
So, following your logic, we should not trust even one of these companies because their past mistakes and everything, so we should not cure with their drugs at all. This reasoning is as ridiculous as what we read everyday in the fora by the people who love conspiracy theories and anti-scientific ways of thinking, such "New drugs to treat hair loss don't get marketed because the pharmas and dermatologists have a business with the current Finasteride and Minoxidil".
So, in this thread ordinary people (aka nobodies) even got to question a PHD doctor on his research and his scientidic methods and publications, at first I heard "Brotzu is only a vascular surgeon", then "He didn't have the knowings and the science when studying his hair loss searches", then even the story of spontaneous remission on ALL his Areata patients, then even the questions on why he sold the patent to FIDIA and not to Merck or GSK (even worse case if we follow your reasoning).
Sorry, I don't buy the "logic" behind these conspiracies, I can understand if we question the role of Beps, Spiga, and other obscure aspects, but I don't think that if the lotion won't work (which is however totally possible) it will be so because an old and different FIDIA was part of a scandal in the past, and I don't think you can even predict the outcome basing on that.
Truth is, you know nothing, like the rest of us. I suggest to you to GTFO quickly and maybe to edit/delete your posts because you are defaming a company who unfortunately revealed to read these fora.
EDIT: I would like to add also, that the fact that a cosmetic in general does not require this much time to get marketed, maybe means that the company is trying to redeem itself from the old mistakes. If they wanted to quickly re-escalate the classifieds of incomes, they should just have marketed the remedy with just the first words of Brotzu. What need is there to conduct any further trials if they just were trying to make some easy money?