Routine Checkup: Gender Bias in Health Studies w/ Dr. Rebecca Shansky

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4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Male rat brains are "normal" and the "text book standard". Female rat brains are "moody", “unpredictable", "hormonal" and can't be trusted when it comes to procuring reliable data in the study of health science. Now... does this sound like some patriarchal bullsh*t? Yeah, we thought so too. This week the guys are joined by Dr. Rebecca Shansky who has poured a lot of work into trying to change the narrative in neuroscience when it comes to how the scientific community views the differences between male and female brains. The gender bias has left us with some pretty undesirable results when it comes to medicine efficacy and more. A fascinating conversation with a lovely individual!

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:08.0	And we're not here.
0:10.0	We go to the kids get all in my hands too.
0:14.0	We go to please get all in a head.
0:17.0	We go to please get all in a head. We go to please get all in a head. I am just so. I am just so we're just so
0:33.6	excited that we have a chance to sit down and have a conversation with Dr. Becca.
0:41.0	You got it? Shansky. Yeah. There you know. Not Shanksky, which I've been saying for weeks now
0:48.7	on the show. But if folks, if you are, if you're, let's say you're just tuning in for the very first time,
0:55.3	this, what we're about to talk about today has come up on the show a few times.
0:59.7	And, uh, Dr. Siansky, you are an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern
1:06.3	University's College of Science.
1:08.5	You specialize in sex differences and brain function. And it was a couple of weeks
1:15.9	ago, maybe, I don't know, two weeks ago, we covered on one of our Feel Good Friday episodes,
1:22.8	an article from The Guardian that was all about the gender bias that exists in in science and
1:31.6	studies. But in particular, in neuroscience. And we were talking about like how, how when it comes
1:42.3	to studying certain drugs, that male rats are considered like the,
1:49.8	the normal, stable brains to work on, whereas the female rats are like way too hormonal,
1:58.2	way too hysterical and moody.
2:01.6	And we just can't trust those pesky female brains to get anything right when it comes to
2:07.4	studying drugs.
2:10.0	And this actually all stemmed from a conversation that we had with Dr. Jen Gunter,
2:15.6	who her whole specialty is, she's an OBGYN. And she brought
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