Noticing new, possibly dangerous finasteride side effects

[25 going on 65]

Sorry you feel that way.
I'm actually not poking fun at people who suffer finasteride side effects. I AM poking fun at fear mongering trolls (I'll leave any names up to your imagination) who in less than a month's time have turned this otherwise excellent forum into a total clown show by hijacking every thread with blatant lies about baldness treatments.
My joke may be in poor taste, but it's not the reason any and every discussion of finasteride - and the legitimate, real-world risks of its side effects - gets completely shut down in less than a day because someone (typically a certain poster) derails it by spamming nonsensical propaganda, and ignores anyone who points out the shortcomings of these tinfoil hat viewpoints.

I wish you good health and good luck. There are in fact risks associated with taking finasteride. Sadly, any attempt to explore them has become nearly impossible on this forum due to every related (and unrelated) discussion being destroyed by screeching, yellow-press-style absurdity.

If I wanted to troll on anywhere near the same level (from the opposite perspective), I would need to post in every active thread and claim something like the following:

-Finasteride has a 0% chance of side effects (other than maybe superhuman strength and increased penis size)
-It will regrow a full head of hair, even for Norwood 7's.
-Alternatives like Saw Palmetto cause impotence, depression, or cancer in more than 9/10 users.
-Finasteride gives you magic powers similar to Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, but better.

...yet even I won't stoop that low.