> “Many prescription drug therapies and treatment protocols still used today have been disproportionately studied on men”
Tim Golditch covers this in Loving Men, Respecting Women:
> Feminism makes mountains out of the fact that most of the medical research testing that has been done has been done on men. Here, according to Aaron Kipnis, are some facts left out:
> During the 1960s, 85 percent of all new pharmaceuticals were first tested on inmates before release to the public. The American prison system crated a human subject experimental lab unparalleled since medical experiments were conducted on the inmates of Nazi death camps. Feminist activists rightly protested in the 1970s that a disproportionate number of medical studies were based upon males. There was no similar outcry in the culture, however, that most of those male subjects were impoverished, coerced young prisoners.
> Social historian Todd Tucker: "In 1974, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of America estimated that about 70 percent of approved drugs had at some point been tested on prisoners."
> And not just prisoners but also soldiers have been used as "guinea pigs." For one of countless examples, a recently unearthed 1956 document confirms "24 Australian servicemen who were deliberately given excessive doses of radiation in so-called protective clothing experiments".
> [...]
> This sort of experimentation on men has gone on all over the world. As a result of such "experiments" we will obviously know more about the effects of radiation poisoning on men than we know about the effects of radiation poisoning on women. But for feminists to shamelessly cite this as an example of caring more about men's health than women's health takes a lot of hypocrisy.