Women’s health at risk because scientists are terrified of being labelled SEXIST
Medical researchers say political correctness is stopping them from designing drugs which cater to differences between genders
WOMEN'S health is under threat because medical scientists are terrified of being labelled SEXIST.
Top academics have said that the trendy belief that men and women's brains are the same is totally false and is hampering the development of drugs.
Neurological issues effect both genders' brains differently, meaning that different treatments have varying effects on males and females.
But scientists are so terrified of being savaged by feminists that they ditch potentially life-saving drugs without testing them properly on both sexes.
Larry Cahill, a neuro-biologist from University of California, published an article in Journal of Neuroscience Research in which he said researchers feared becoming "a pariah in the eyes of the neuroscience mainstream" for admitting differences between genders.
He added: "They don't get too upset about sex differences in the liver, heart, and microbiome.
"Some people start to get itchy though when you talk about sex differences in the brain. That in turn stems from a deeply ingrained, powerful and false assumption."
"The heart of the resistance is the view that if neuroscience shows males and females are not the same in brain function, we are showing they are not equal. That is false."
He also discussed a drug called Lazaroids, which was a stroke treatment which did not appear to work when tested on both genders, which could be because it was simply effective for men and not for women.
Earlier this year, a scientist called Professor Gina Rippon claimed gender differences were a result of cultural and environmental factors.
She suggested differences were caused by treatment in childhood when boys are given toys and books that differ from those given to girls.
“There is no such thing as a male or female brain," she said.