I dislike Vivek but I agree. This is a rare trvke from him. This should be obvious- if Trump was molested I would never have supported him, because he would have been damaged and turned into a completely different person.
@regularaugust This might just be a huge protestant/catholic cultural difference because "Guy cheats on his wife" wouldn't even be a high tier gossip here, let alone a SCANDAL.
Research funding committees being composed of mostly old men leads to a disproportionate amount of funding going to old men problems like Alzheimer's.
We could instead be funding stuff like cognitive enhancement, moon colonization, primatology, tesla coils, rocket boosters...
Actually things arenโt fine, sorry. The singularity is currently happening against the backdrop of the disintegration of the western political and ideological order
Thereโs nothing deep or intellectual about presentism. It genuinely doesnโt matter if your life feels โnormalโ
Endo treatment goes through multiple layers of misogyny:
a) Women are less likely to be tenured researchers.
b) Said researchers are way less likely to get funding for research into women's issues.
c) Women are less likely to be taken seriously by doctors to receive treatment.
And weโre surprised that some doctors want endometriosis reclassified as cancer because of how it behaves. But sure, letโs keep studying the most attractive female body traits instead of addressing this severely understudied illness. Iโll just keep sitting here in pain, I guess.