Comment by joshuajooste05

Comment by joshuajooste05 2 days ago

My girlfriend has endometriosis, I hadn't really read much about it until now, thank you for writing!

I think this is a story too common in women's healthcare.

It's often massively underfunded and underesearched, another symptom of the fact our society had not let women into STEM/politics for decades, and continues to erect barriers to encourage them not too.

I like the fact you spelled out the incentives for PhDs to do so at the end ;). Would be great!

catigula 2 days ago

>and continues to erect barriers to encourage them not too

Funny, my experience is the absolute opposite of this claim.

Also, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure breast cancer is the single most well-funded areas of cancer research.

There's a toolbox a certain type of person likes to reach for even when the evidence is inconsistent.

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kjkjadksj 2 days ago

Well outside of breast and ovarian cancer for obvious reasons, most mouse models tend to be male to eliminate the variable of the hormone cycle. But if some effect is actually influenced by that cycle you just ensured you will never find it. I’m also not sure how similar the mouse hormone cycle is to humans.

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- askvictor 2 days ago
  
  Also, we're now finding males have a hormonal cycle, but it's less obvious or predictable than females' so those variables have probably been in there all along, just unknown.
  
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- catigula 2 days ago
  
  Completely different argument.
  
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  kjkjadksj 2 days ago
  
  It was an example of research on women’s health being underfunded or underresearched.
  
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