> To me junk science is the fact that the National Institute of Health, paid for
> in part with my tax dollars, has only recently begun the first study of women
> and heart disease -- interesting since women have as many heart attacks as
> men, and die of them at a much greater rate. Further, the NIH did not (and
> may still not) have a gynecology department as recently as 5 years ago.
> Medical science, along with all the other "hard sciences" has been strongly
> guided by social perceptions of who is important in society -- primarily upper
> class, white men. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institutions like the NIH are not affected by altered voting profiles,
etc, so their directors can go on imagining for decades that the figure
of the independent American woman is still Rosie the Riveter, a temporary
WW2 aberration that need not be addressed by new policy. The upshot of
such an attitude is that the health of women is best assured through
maintaining the health of the men who, as hubbies, must pay their way.
Such bureaucrats should be obliged to start their tenure with a week
on the campus of Smith College.
valis
