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Jim Nuzzo

Jim Nuzzo

Exercise scientist and men's health researcher, author of "The Nuzzo Letter," former Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University.

Aug 28, 2026

27:55
[laughs]
27:55
Um, ev- everything from the wom- you know, the person that works at the desk that checks you in, from the nurses, the midwives.
28:04
Um, I think now in Australia, I think we n- I think there's now 50% or more of physicians are female.
28:11
So it's a very...
28:12
A- and all the, um, government health agencies, uh, particularly in Australia, are, like, 70, 75%, uh, women.
28:22
So how is it that you still have all of this going on? Uh, you claim medical misogyny, but it's primarily a women's run industry, and we can go through all the other things too, like women's health research always gets more funding.
28:41
As Hannah pointed out, you g- you take a drive down the street, you see women's health center, women's health center, women's health center.

39 MINS LATER

67:49
Goes in under this
23:15
So, Jim, do you have
23:19
anything for me? Yeah, I've got quite a bit to say on this because this is, like you mentioned, a rising term, a growing term, recognition of this term, particularly in Australia where I'm based.
23:33
So it's recognized by the New South Wales state government.
23:38
They've got a definition for it.
23:40
You can see it appearing in increased numbers of academic papers.
23:44
We've got think tanks here publishing about this topic.
23:50
The Sydney Morning Herald, one of the biggest newspapers here, has a section of the newspaper dedicated toward medical misogyny.

39 MINS LATER

63:11
So gender washing, did we talk about, did you want to mention gender washing, Jim?

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