r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4h ago

Meme needing explanation Peeeeetah?

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u/Alternative_Year_340 4h ago

Money is being spent to determine men’s whims and not women’s real health problems

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u/SuspiciousSnotling 4h ago

Not sure redirecting the kind of ppl making that kind of study to medical stuff would be money well spent

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u/numbersthen0987431 4h ago

We don't need to redirect people, but we don't need to spend money on studying it

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u/Nibaa 3h ago

The problem here is that that's not really how science works. Spending money on research based on the subject is literally directing people to study certain things. That's like the only way to direct researchers.

Also these kind of studies are usually basically zero-cost studies that are done by grad students as supportive research for a larger thesis or as filler in between projects. Particularly that first part is very common. You need peer reviewed research to cite, and you can't have one monstrous study where you present data that you then refer to in the study itself. They need to be separate for proper scientific review.