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From 1996 to 2006, more than 79 percent of the animal studies published in the scientific journal Pain included only male subjects.
“The patient in question was a young woman whose parents brought her in because she complained incessantly of stomach pains. Freud diagnosed her with hysteria. A few months later, she died of abdominal cancer.”
― Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
― Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. —Karl Popper”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined,” writes Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the few prominent figures to address the issue regularly.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Philip’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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79 friends
14 books
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54 friends
157 books
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11 friends
723 books
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12 friends
124 books
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1 friend
2,604 books
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16 friends
561 books
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17 friends
2,102 books
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225 friends
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