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>and continues to erect barriers to encourage them not too

Funny, my experience is the absolute opposite of this claim.

Also, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure breast cancer is the single most well-funded areas of cancer research.

There's a toolbox a certain type of person likes to reach for even when the evidence is inconsistent.

Well outside of breast and ovarian cancer for obvious reasons, most mouse models tend to be male to eliminate the variable of the hormone cycle. But if some effect is actually influenced by that cycle you just ensured you will never find it. I’m also not sure how similar the mouse hormone cycle is to humans.

Completely different argument.

It was an example of research on women’s health being underfunded or underresearched.

No, it was a non-sequitur argument after having your core premise disproven with an extremely common and well-known example of women's health being extremely well-funded. You even carved out special pleading by trying to exempt it.

maybe you could presume sincerity and not respond like a prick?

Also, we're now finding males have a hormonal cycle, but it's less obvious or predictable than females' so those variables have probably been in there all along, just unknown.

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