History is important. It helps to place contemporary issues in their proper context. It can help us to appreciate the things that we currently have, when those things are better than they were in the past. History can also provide the motivation or yearning for something better, when things in the moment are not as good as they could be. Either way, history informs.
James, you might like to add to your list of heroic medical men. There was also Dr Giles Brindley's famous presentation to the 1983 American Urological Association (AUA) meeting where he injected himself with the drug papaverine and displayed the resulting firm erection to the assembled audience. It immediately prompted world-wide interest in this important drug for treating erectile dysfunction.
A less serious example than the martyrs you mention in your important blog...but it still took courage - a characteristic luckily still flourishing, particularly in the male of our species.
Thanks for such a refreshingly positive article about men. Great to see men get some respect for a change instead of the vilification from feminist media.
Great stuff Dr Nuzzo. We have a allowed feminists to make remarkably false claims for decades and rewarded their lies with billions in funding. Go figure.
James , Bettina recommended your site. I have been studying history for the last 6 years to see what has happened. I documented much of my work on my website Humanistman. I have written to courts, politicians and media for many years. It seems that tribalism (groups in all life forms) is enforced by "good" feelings which people overindulge in to produce the Drama triangle of Victim/Perpetrator/Hero - where weak minded men adopt the hero for the entitled victim. Virtue signalling makes the person "feel" good regardless of the truth, facts, balance or any kind of debate. They simply double down on "Their lived experience" (The Amygdala and Feelings are closely related - Hussurl) regardless of facts or balance. It is habitual over-stimualtion of the limbic system (Virtue signalling and Saving the victim makes you feel "Good") and avoid the use of the pre-frontal cortex which can require 20% of the bodies energy to fully function. Many women have been declared themslves victism for the last 50 years - prior to that it wasn't considered the right thing to do. Stoic resolved and competence were preferred - but no we have fully entrenched tribal victim narratives - firstly for women but now for black tribal types and spreading to other tribal groups. Evolution selects for Tribes and being heroic. Only very small numbers of humans can escape their tribal habits.
James, you might like to add to your list of heroic medical men. There was also Dr Giles Brindley's famous presentation to the 1983 American Urological Association (AUA) meeting where he injected himself with the drug papaverine and displayed the resulting firm erection to the assembled audience. It immediately prompted world-wide interest in this important drug for treating erectile dysfunction.
A less serious example than the martyrs you mention in your important blog...but it still took courage - a characteristic luckily still flourishing, particularly in the male of our species.
See this link - https://www.medpagetoday.com/urology/erectiledysfunction/40623
I was unaware of Brindley's story. Thanks for sharing.
Great story Bettina! Brindley was a brave soul! Imagine it had failed! Now that would be embarrassing.
He showed them, as well, that he had the stones for it.
Great job Jim! This kind of historical perspective is badly needed.
Thanks for such a refreshingly positive article about men. Great to see men get some respect for a change instead of the vilification from feminist media.
Great stuff Dr Nuzzo. We have a allowed feminists to make remarkably false claims for decades and rewarded their lies with billions in funding. Go figure.
James , Bettina recommended your site. I have been studying history for the last 6 years to see what has happened. I documented much of my work on my website Humanistman. I have written to courts, politicians and media for many years. It seems that tribalism (groups in all life forms) is enforced by "good" feelings which people overindulge in to produce the Drama triangle of Victim/Perpetrator/Hero - where weak minded men adopt the hero for the entitled victim. Virtue signalling makes the person "feel" good regardless of the truth, facts, balance or any kind of debate. They simply double down on "Their lived experience" (The Amygdala and Feelings are closely related - Hussurl) regardless of facts or balance. It is habitual over-stimualtion of the limbic system (Virtue signalling and Saving the victim makes you feel "Good") and avoid the use of the pre-frontal cortex which can require 20% of the bodies energy to fully function. Many women have been declared themslves victism for the last 50 years - prior to that it wasn't considered the right thing to do. Stoic resolved and competence were preferred - but no we have fully entrenched tribal victim narratives - firstly for women but now for black tribal types and spreading to other tribal groups. Evolution selects for Tribes and being heroic. Only very small numbers of humans can escape their tribal habits.