Macho Men Are Ruining Science by Volunteering for Pain Studies to Show How Strong They Are

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This seems like blame shifting, the whole point of pain studies is moot without effective pain treatment. Macho guys aren't why people have to suffer these days.

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I don't think they are blaming men for poor pain treatment.

Rather I think it explains some weird findings like that study where people had to choose between siting in silence and shocking themselves and that one guy shocked himself hundreds of times. He might not have been trying to avoid the silence, he might have been testing how hard he was.