Actually, the way that LAgirl’s statement read, I believe that most readers would take the meaning to be “Electrolysis is an unproven commodity that can’t stand up to the approval process that LASER has been put through.” I, for one, expect someone like her to know enough to avoid making statements that can be misconstrued in that way, if such is not the meaning she wants to convey. The fact that the “Electrolysis was grandfathered in by the FDA, and has no proof it works” line is a stock and trade propaganda piece from the LASER industry that has been used like MLB’s constant tag line “America’s Pastime” even as stats show that more Americans Pass Time with figure skating and NASCAR for the past 20 years or more. I believe figures showed American Football past baseball in the 70’s or 80’s.
We expect that LAgirl knows what Dee posted, and we also expect that she knows that electrolysis was around for nearly 50 years already before the FDA was even chartered, and that by the time it expanded to even cover electrolysis machines the practice of electrolysis had been around for 110 years. Did they have studies to show it worked by then? Yes, they did. Did they spend government money commissioning new studies on it? No, they did not. What they did do in 1976 is take action against X-ray hair removal, a practice that had been exposed as lethal in the late 1940’s and 1950’s, and while the government HAD banned shoe store X-ray machines in the 1950’s, they never got around to taking such strong action against X-Ray hair removal practices, and instead left it up to the practitioner’s ability to get their machines repaired to thin out and eventually eliminate the business. The last X-ray hair removal machine left service in Ohio, in 1976 when the owner could no longer find anyone willing to service it alongside their medical X-ray machines from doctor’s offices.