Feminists Amass Billions as They Spread Falsehoods About Medical Research

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Feminists Amass Billions as They Spread Falsehoods About Medical Research

July 20, 2026 — This past Wednesday a group of women gathered in Washington, DC to propose a $20 billion, taxpayer-funded project to close the “woman’s health gap” (1). Inexplicably, no one at the event mentioned the most glaring health gap of all — the fact that men are dying five years sooner than women.

In attendance at the event was Dr. Vivian Pinn, former director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health. Dr. Pinn was one of the women who had schemed to convince Congress that women’s health research was being shortchanged. “The exclusion of some women in clinical research may sometimes be valid, but not all the women all the time,” Pinn claimed, without evidence, in her widely-cited 1993 article (2).

After her misleading article was published, a group of citizens requested a meeting with Dr. Pinn in her NIH office. “The data don’t support your conclusion,” the group charged. In response, Dr. Pinn offered this implausible explanation: “They misquoted me.”

End of discussion.

In 2001, an in-depth analysis of NIH research concluded that in fact, Dr. Pinn had misrepresented the truth. It was men, not women who had been underrepresented in the NIH research portfolio (3).

Indeed, extensive analyses have been conducted to nail down the elusive “woman’s health gap.” Dr. James Nuzzo reviewed government records to analyze sex-specific participation in NIH research. He found from 1995 to 2022, women composed 58% of all participants in NIH clinical trials (4) – no female underrepresentation to be found there.

But these facts haven’t dissuaded women’s health advocates from continuing their fictitious campaign:

The National Strategy to Close the Women’s Health Gap, which is now seeking $20 billion from American taxpayers, asserts, “for decades [women’s] health needs across conditions and stages of life have been understudied and underserved.” (5)
The Society for Women’s Health Research claims on its website, “Historically, women have been underrepresented in clinical research.” (6)

Neither report provided any details to back up their representations, such as the dates of the purported exclusion, the affected diseases, and the degree of the underrepresentation. These important details were left to the fevered imagination of the feminist activists.

Now, the “excluded and under-represented” theme has become embedded into a broader social narrative. An AI search concludes, “The claim that women were ‘excluded’ or ‘underrepresented’ in NIH-funded (or broader biomedical) research appears thousands of times across academic literature, reports, news articles, and policy documents.” (7)

Women’s health researchers have profited handsomely from the falsehood. Since 1993, women’s health research-related spending has been in the range of $80–120 billion (7), Women’s health has enjoyed more than twice as much dedicated funding as men’s health: 14% vs. 6% of the total NIH budget (8).

Medical research is supposed to be dedicated to the unfettered quest for objective truth. It is outrageous and wrong that our society has allowed a group of partisans to usurp the women’s health agenda, while men are allowed to die five years before their time without a murmur of protest.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure fairness and equal opportunities for men.

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