Today, my
new favorite blogger at the Chronicle, Marty Nemko, finds the
real lesson in Tim Russert's death:
Tim Russert’s untimely death from a sudden heart attack reminded me of the dramatic 50+-year-long gender disparity against men in health care research and outreach.
Nemko claims that "for the past 50+ years, the overwhelming majority of health care research has been on women’s health" citing as evidence:
. . . when I searched PubMed . . . I found 22,304 articles with the keywords “women’s health,” but only 586
with “men’s health.”
Holy crap... 97% of all medical research is about tits and ovaries? Now that is alarming... so alarming that you almost wonder if there is some huge and obvious logical flaw in his argument...
