Artemis, what made you change your mind because I agree with every point you made here?
He says he was the first Dr in the world to successfully finish clinical studies on hearing regeneration in 2014. That's 4/5 years ago and yet nobody has heard of him! This is ground breaking stuff.
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Someone needs to inform Frequency, Decibel, Novartis, Regain, etc, that someone beat them to it years ago, and is successful at it.
Doesn't this seem odd to any of you? If he is legitimately restoring hearing, then all I can say is he isn't doing himself justice by keeping this to himself. He has had 4 years to have his method independently validated but has chosen not to, and you have to ask yourselves why? He should be world renowned by now.
Coming at this from a neutral standpoint, all I can say is that something seriously doesn't add up, but if he is legitimately restoring people's hearing, then all the best to him. However, for a top professional, he has a very odd way of conducting his business.
Anyway, that's my assessment and I think I've done enough jabbering to last a lifetime.
1. I had enough evidence that he was an ENT online.
2. The science I read made me more open-minded and started making me believe it was possible. Even John, who was skeptical at first, became more open to the idea after he did a lot of digging, and he has a better background in looking through this than most of us.
3. Before reading about him, I spent years looking up ecommerce on things like reselling, affiliate marketing, copywriting, Kindle book making, drop shipping, Amazon wholesale, private labeling, etc, and spent a lot of time interacting with many people trying to promote courses on how to do tricks to be successful with them. All of what I mentioned are legitimate ways to make extra money, and you can even make a living off of them once you get good enough, but at first I was not convinced on several of these. There were far too many extremely shady people promoting courses that were made without passion, helpful information, and many of them had ridiculous prices to go along with their half-assed courses. I ran into a lot of people who I thought were genuine but were actually complete bull crap after I took another look. This made me lose faith in the idea of making side income. I wanted an escape from family drama that was productive and let me make something of myself, but I got too depressed when I started to believe all my efforts were a waste. A long period after, I started looking at that stuff again, particularly reselling and affiliate marketing. I thought maybe I was missing some things, and began looking more on how it all worked, and many other examples. It turned out that quite a few people I thought were full of crap were actually honest, but it took me a second and more detailed look to realize that. Throughout the many shady people I saw, there were enough honest people, and all that time doubting I could have made side income sooner. During some semesters of college I made a few thousand dollars, and I know full well I would be making more if I had more free time. I would have made more overall if I didn't dismiss so much in the past. Thanks to so much garbage people, it took me a lot of time to find the good people who were an actual help, and many of the good people I quickly judged as phony in the past just because they were too optimistic and appeared weird. I regret that. I learned how important it was to be more analytical and give second looks. It's not wise to dismiss stuff so easily unless you have supportable evidence. That's a large reason why I haven't given up talking about Shim. I don't want to dismiss this so casually and find out I was wrong. I would rather see this to the end and then find out I was wrong, though I am hoping I'm right. It's very much possible, but I don't want to have similar regrets like I did with the stuff I mentioned in the past.
4. After a lot of background research, and actual interaction with him, I started to think he was honest. He didn't have the kind of shady responses to me that the phony ecommerce "gurus" gave me in the past. Instead of the typical half answer and "why don't you buy my product to find out?", he was very open to me, talked about how his treatment worked, and was willing to have lengthy discussions that didn't lead to much when he had time, and even talked about his personal life a bit. He knew very well it was possible I might not end up getting the treatment for a long time (if at all) because of my financial situation, and yet was willing to have lengthy discussions about his profession and the science around it. I don't think someone who was trying to scam another person would spend so much of his time like that. That's definitely not what I experienced with the "gurus". Also, I even suggested to him (not word for word) that if he was really a scammer, he'd be inches away from living Hell, because what he is promoting... if it didn't work for a few people in the way he has promised, TinnitusTalk would not let it go, and we'd make sure he'd lose his ENT license. This isn't a matter of "oh it's your fault because you didn't follow my course/plan right" or "oh I guess you aren't the right kind of person." What he is promising is something that would work for almost everyone, and it would be very quick to conclude he was phony after a handful of patients that didn't work out. If he was a scammer, he'd be the stupidest scammer I'd ever seen, and I have definitely come across plenty. What he is promoting would end his career quickly, and ENTs make a lot of money on their own. Why would someone risk years of medical training and a profitable career for a fake treatment with promises that someone would be able to immediately tell he was a fraud after the treatment? He's not even making that much money off each treatment. Truthfully, he'd be in a lot of trouble after a few failures, especially from us. Why is he talking to us then? If he was a fraud, it'd mean he wanted to be caught. It'd mean that he'd want to lose his ENT license and perhaps even his freedom. A daredevil like that would not make much sense in the real world.
5. In the past I was very depressed. Really, I was a mess, and even considered suicide because of so much problems in my life, tinnitus and hearing loss included. I was going through a lot of pain. However, somehow I ended up being better and more optimistic after all that time researching about Minbo Shim. I felt this was reasonable hope, and I had no way of thinking otherwise until some people we knew actually did the treatments. For whatever reason, this ended up helping me out a lot, and my life has been so much better. Now, I just want to see this through, and not have this discussion going around in circles.
6. What you quoted had flaws to the logic. For one thing, that was more so an English domain park that he wasn't taking as seriously. His Korean sites looked so much better and had more information and history in them. Granted, he should have taken English-speaking medical tourists more seriously, and invested in better marketing/web design with good translation, but he was already doing plenty with his Korean site. I did find out that the Sales Fiesta thing was an actual Korean business tradition much like the sales weekend we have with Black Friday through Cyber Monday, so he didn't make that part up on the fly. I also now think that having such discounts is probably a decent attractive marketing strategy if he was honest. Granted, it would be a very minimum profit if it takes a lot of time to do, but I don't see that very wrong. It's weird, yes, but $3,000 (what it was half off at the time) is much more reasonable that the THOUSANDS of dollars many Stem cell clinics charge.
7. He has spent a LOT of money traveling to Russia, USA, and the Middle East. He did this traveling for medical research and medical tourism. He has also spent a lot of money on running multiple clinics with multiple employees (which I found on Facebook) This goes back to several points I made earlier. His clinics were traceable on Google Maps, had photos, and even videos of one of his clinics were around with some of the employees I saw on Facebook. He also is part of a medical organization that has seminars that probably is also pretty expensive to be a part of. So, how can he be spending all this money, and be practicing regenerative treatments on the ear and nose that would easily be obvious if it was fraud? South Korea is a very advanced country with their own medical ethics laws. He would be arrested and fined if he was a fraud, and yet he's been around for years. There is SO MUCH risk and expenses and that's why I began to believe that it's more believable for him to be genuine than it is for him to be a phony.
There was an 8 I was going to write, but I don't remember it because my aunt called. I'll probably remember later. However, there are so many variables on why I started to think why this was legitimate. I'll get back to this later.
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