Don’t even get me started on that click bait headline. Of the multitudinous causes of deafness, this only treats a very narrow group of people.

A headline on c/Science is lying to me and is full of shoddy errors in the study? Here's my shocked Pikachu face.

Yeah, you can quickly learn ASL for “bullshit“ this way, lol. They will call you out without hesitation

No.

No, this is for one specific type of genetic deafness.

Dude right? Came here to say this.

Tinnitus is pretty much a sensory-filtering issue in the brain, so an injection can’t really so much. I believe it can be mostly fixed by sound therapy and other therapies, although I gotta read up on it.

Just find someone born deaf/deaf from infancy with CI / Cochlear Implant and ask them.

There was a whole law & order episode about it. And it’s not just a “fringe group“. I went to the Rochester Institute of technology, which is also where the National Technical Institute for the Deaf is. There is quite a substantial community of hearing impaired people who view it as an entire identity similar to how the LGBTQ community view their identity. To “take away” their deafness is to take away that identity and thereby exclude them from that community because of what a huge community and culture has been built around it.

To hearing people, that may seem difficult to understand, but, as someone who lived in a mixed community and around deaf people for many years, I definitely understand where they’re coming from. Yet, I still find it difficult to understand why someone who had the opportunity to gain the ability to hear would ultimately decide not to. Although I do understand why they might wrestle with such a decision. And, not being hearing impaired or deaf myself, I probably can never really fully understand it.

It’s very complicated

I don't think that view is even fringe among them. I made the mistake of weighing in on it years ago on reddit, and have since learned my lesson.

That is actually a common opinion of the deaf community, minority groups aren't necessarily fringe. It's kind of insensitive the way you talk about this. They were born that way the same as people are born gay. If there was a "cure" for homosexuality we would hear the same thing.

https://www.lenire.com/

I'm probably gonna give this a go in a few years

I think that for certain aspects of it we eventually will be able to. Either that or smart hearing aides will get so good that they will have nice software for decreasing the experience of tinnitus without overpowering your ability to hear other things normally. Technology can and definitely should do that.

Well shit, they weren’t going to until your comment but now baldness will probably be cured within the month.

And the foreskin.

Enlighten me on this topic as I'm ignorant.

Do women generally find bald men less attractive? Or do men just find other bald men less attractive?

Basically what's wrong with being bald?

Genetic. Specifically gene called OTOF.

It is still pretty amazing and life changing for the recipients.

About 200,000 people worldwide.

In 10 patients

In 10 out of 10 people tested, so that's pretty good.

with a specific form of deafness*

Yeah, one specific genetic defect. They're looking into others now so hopefully this is just the start.