Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate

The journal Nature, which less than a decade ago was routinely publishing articles that acknowledged the presence of genetic sex differences in the brain and other organs, ran an article in its February 27, 2019, issue entitled “Neurosexism: The Myth That Men and Women Have Different Brains.” “By constantly denying and trivializing and even vilifying research into biologically-based sex influences on the brain,” he wrote, “[the anti–sex difference contingent is] in fact advocating for biomedical research to retain its male subject–dominated status quo so disproportionately harmful to women.” Like everyone else in neuroscience, I used to fully believe that there weren’t any sex differences or influences on brain function, with the exception of little-bitty brain parts explicitly associated with sex and sex hormones and sex parts.

Source: medium.com