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I work for Johns Hopkins. This stuff is completely normal and par for the course.
when I was at the OSU James Cancer hospital there was also plenty of request for donors too, but it never was such a blatant “we are close to curing cancer but can only do it with your help” vibe.
it just looks like they’ve been saying the same thing for years now, there have been no human trials, just lab and animal tests (and certain animal species such as avians can already regenerate hair cells).
i respect the fact they are working on things, but at the same time, I think one needs to be careful of funding work that is always “close”....
it’s like if you had a kitchen remodel and the contractor keeps saying “almost finished” for months after months while continually needing more money to finish the job......
basically, I’ve seen so many empty promises and “snake oil” treatments pitched to tinnitus suffers, and many are desperate so they spend a lot of money on ineffective “cures”.
I once had a patient who sold his car to get money to go to Europe for transcranial magnetic stimulation because he read it could help, and of course it didn’t, nor had it been proven to, but they gladly took thousands of dollars from him and of course said he needed more sessions which he couldn’t afford, so then I ended up with a patient who not only still suffered tinnitus, but was more hopeless than ever as yet another thing didn’t work, and he was also now financially in the hole, making matters worse.
I just don’t want to see folks give these guys thousands of dollars thinking a breakthrough is going to suddenly happen and they will be cured. Even if they are close the time frame for FDA human trials takes forever so no one would be seeing anything for quite some time.
again, one can freely donate how they see fit, to whomever they want, but do some due research before making contributions.
