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The Nuzzo Letter
by James L. Nuzzo
Discussing exercise, men's health, academia, and romantic realism in film. jameslnuzzo.substack.com
Episodes
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Welcome to the “Countermovement”!
On January 20, 2026, I published an essay titled, “Backlash Against the Backlash: Feminists Reveal Their 2026 Playbook.” In the essay, I commented on two items written by feminist authors. The first item was an article published in Foreign Affairs, titled, “How to Save the Fight for Women’s…
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Public Health’s Historical Prejudice Against Men and Boys
“Shorter life expectancy among men in general, if likely avoidable, would clearly be an issue of public health importance based on the magnitude of potential population impact. However, men as a group have more wealth, influence, and prestige, so this difference would not be a social injustice…
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Weekly Roundup
LEADING ARTICLE Source of Usual Health Care for Adults Age 18 and Older: United States, 2024 NCHS Data Brief Summary: In 2024, 9 in 10 adults reported having a source of usual health care, with women more likely to report having a source of usual care (93.3%) than men (87.1%). Women were more...
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Australia's Manosphere Guide for Teachers
On March 12, 2026, ABC News in Australia published an article titled, “Teachers, schools given handbook to combat misogynistic behaviour in classrooms.” The article highlighted a new guide published by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety and Monash University titled, “An...
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Australian Research Council Funds Biased Project on “Anti-Women” Movements
In the Rubbish Bin of the Weekly Roundup on July 27, 2025, I included a paper published in the journal Men and Masculinities titled, “Mapping of the Neo-Manosphere(s): New Directions for Research.” This paper was authored by Vivian Gerrand, Debbie Ging, Joshua Roose, and Michael Flood. The paper...
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eSafety Commissioner’s Sex-Biased Grants on Online Abuse
On February 9, 2026, the Australian Communications and Media Authority – an agency within the country’s federal government – announced that it will be awarding several million dollars in grants for its latest taxpayer-funded adventure, the eSafety Commissioner’s Preventing Tech-based Abuse of…
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The Notebook and Romantic Love
On Christmas Eve 2025, a women’s magazine called Evie Magazine published an article titled, “Why Does Hollywood Keep Telling Women To Pick Broke Men?” The author of the article was Carmen Schober. Schober’s general thesis was that modern Hollywood movies often show women choosing subpar men over...
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Research Ethics Matter Now That Women Are Exercise Study Participants
In April of 2025, the Journal of Academic Ethics published a paper titled, “Exercise Science Students as Research Participants in Faculty-Led Research: An Ethical Dilemma.” The paper was written by two kinesiologists or biomechanists in the United States: Nicole Rendos and Christopher Wilburn. In...
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Rejecting the Gynocentric Approach to Paternity Leave
On December 22 of 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a tweet about paternity leave and its purposes. In the tweet, the OECD said: “Paid leave for fathers is expanding, but it remains underused. When fathers take paternal leave, it leads to more equal...
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Backlash Against the Backlash
On the same day that United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would no longer fund United Nations (UN) Women and several other UN entities, Foreign Affairs published an article by Saskia Brechenmacher, titled “How to Save the Fight for Women’s Rights: The Backlash…
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Researchers Left in the Dark
Many readers of The Nuzzo Letter have probably heard of academic peer review, but few are likely to have ever participated in the process or have viewed it from the inside. Here, my aim is to show readers what a journal’s submission portal looks like and explain how authors are often left in the...
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United States to Defund UN Women
United Nations (UN) Women is the entity within the UN that is said to be dedicated to “gender equality” and the empowerment of women. However, many problems exist with UN Women. Fundamental to these problems is UN Women’s ideological bias, which stems from an adherence to intersectional feminist...
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Women in STEM, Men in…
STEM and Women The seemingly never-ending campaign to recruit more women into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) continues in Australia. On November 26, 2025, the federal government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources announced that it would invest another $9.77...
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Sex-Biased Pollsters
On July 10, 2025, the Pew Research Center published results from its poll of 5,085 American men and women titled, “Americans’ Views on Who Influences Health Policy and Which Health Issues to Prioritize.” In one part of the poll, participants were presented with a list of eight health issues and...
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National Academies’ Grand Plan for the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health
The United States (U.S.) Office of Research on Women’s Health was created within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1990. Organizationally, the Office is positioned within the Office of the Director of the NIH. The original goals of the Office of Research on Women’s Health were: “(1) to...
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Early Exercise Researchers Did Not Ignore Women
On May 31, 2024, I published an essay titled, “History Didn’t Start at Title IX.” In the essay, I challenged the common assumption that women were historically excluded from early research about physical exercise. I explained that a reasonable degree of female participation can be expected in…
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“Mankeeping” - Academia’s Latest Attack on Men
Just when you thought the unrelenting attacks on men from academia could not get any worse, they have. In the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities, the concept “mankeeping” was recently introduced by Angelica Ferrara and Dylan Vergara of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford...
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Men, Masculinity, and Movies: One Thing Kevin Sorbo Got Wrong
In September of 2023, actor Kevin Sorbo, famous for his starring role in the 1990s television show “Hercules,” wrote an article for Fox News titled, “Let’s make Hollywood manly again.” In his article, Sorbo argued that modern Hollywood poorly portrays men and masculinity and thus does not give…
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Canada’s Sex Bias in Health Research Funding
“This is feminist economic policy in action.” Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Deputy PM, Minister of Finance (Budget 2022) Investigations into the way that government’s allocate money into health research is important, because taxpayers should know how their money is being used and if that use aligns...
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Australia’s Federal Budget Forgets Men
On Tuesday, March 25th, the Australian Labor Party handed down the country’s federal budget for the 2025-26 financial year. Men’s health was not part of the budget. However, women’s health received its usual smorgasbord of government goodies, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers stating that women's…
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Brothers of the Barbell and the Blackout
(*Don’t forget to scroll to the end to see more interesting photographs!) Today, there exists much concern about women’s representation as participants in exercise research. I have covered this topic in essays such as “History Didn’t Start at Title IX,” “Men: The Martyrs of Medicine,” and “Is…
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Anti-Male Bias in Contemporary Academia
Recently, in a piece titled, Men Putting the Brakes on Exercise Science Degrees, I explained the results from my research on numbers of exercise physiology degrees earned in the United States (U.S.). For the research, I collated data on degrees earned in exercise science since 2002. I presented…
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Women’s Viewership of Women’s Sports
A significant amount of data on sex differences exists. Over several decades of research on human psychology and physiology, thousands of studies have been conducted regarding men’s and women’s unique and overlapping preferences, behaviors, and abilities. Moreover, in recent years, government...
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Men Putting the Brakes on Exercise Science Degrees
In December of last year, I wrote a paper titled, “Exercise physiology degrees in the United States: an update on secular trends.” The paper, which is an update of my previous analysis from 2020, was published in the journal Advances in Physiology Education. Advances in Physiology Education is…
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Gender Equity at Curtin University
Curtin University is one of 42 universities in Australia. It is a public university located in Perth – the city where I reside. Total student enrolment at Curtin University is approximately 60,000. Earlier this year, Curtin University advertised a job titled STEM Outreach Officer. According to…
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Dead Men and the Bureau of Labor Statistics
On December 19, 2024, the United States (U.S.) Bureau of Labor Statistics published their annual press release on fatal occupational injuries. The release, which amounts to a brief report, is 10 pages long. In the first sentence of the report, the Bureau states that there were 5,283 fatal work...
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Taylor Lorenz and the Counterfactual of a Murdered Female CEO
On December 4th, Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), was purposely gunned down in Manhattan outside the New York Midtown hotel. The alleged assassin, who is now in custody, is Luigi Mangione. Taylor Lorenz is a former Washington Post journalist, who is known for making various…
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Communist China and Exercise Science Publishing
On October 13, I received an email from a master’s student of exercise science at the Shanghai University of Sport in China. The student’s name was Mingyue Yin. Mr. Yin invited me to co-author a consensus paper about minimal dose exercise training. Minimal dose exercise training, which I have...
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Fewer Men Than Women Vote - Why?
On October 28, I shared data at The Nuzzo Letter showing that substantially fewer men than women vote in elections for United States (U.S.) president. This has been the case dating back to at least 1964. Each election, women make up roughly 53.5% of those who vote, while men make up the other...
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A Woman President
“I would not want to be president and would not vote for a woman president. A woman cannot reasonably want to be a commander-in-chief. I prefer to answer the question by outlining what a rational man would do if he were president.” That was Ayn Rand’s answer to an article-interview question that...
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Men: The Intellectual Giants of Exercise Science
In June, the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance published a survey study on the history of exercise science. The survey, titled “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Essential Papers in Sports and Exercise Physiology,” was conducted by two accomplished exercise scientists…
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NIH Reveals “New” Research Areas for Women’s Health
Previously, at The Nuzzo Letter, I explained that the White House’s Initiative on Women’s Health Research would be allocating 100 million dollars to work being done by women’s health researchers and startup companies. Now, we know more details of where that money will go. The Office for Research…
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Gynocentrism in Biomedical Research
On November 13th of 2023, the Biden White House and its Gender Policy Council announced the creation of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. On February 23rd of 2024, the White House revealed the initiative would start with an investment of $100 million dollars into work being...
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New Research Confirms the Rise of Woke Medicine
In March of this year, I shared a story about one of my research papers that was found to be so disagreeable to a women on the journal’s editorial team, that she decided to resign from her position in protest to the editor’s decision to accept my paper for publication. The paper was finally...
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The Muscle Fatigue Curve
Let us pretend that you are asked to perform five consecutive sets of resistance exercise with a one-minute rest between each set. You can choose whatever exercise you like, and you can lift whatever weight you like, but the weight must be the same for all five exercise sets, and you must try to...
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History Didn't Start at Title IX
[Skip to the end to see all the photographs!] In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments Act into United States law. The broad aim of Title IX was to ensure, within federally funded educational institutions, that individuals were not discriminated against based…
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Minimal Dose Resistance Exercise
There are many reasons why one should want to maintain adequate muscle strength throughout life. Greater muscle strength correlates with reduced risk of all-cause mortality, reduced risk of falls, better ability to perform activities of daily living, and better recoveries after hospital…
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Personal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 6 – Rejected by a Copyeditor Stand-in for Big Public Health
In Story 5 of my personal experiences with ideological drama in academic peer review, we learned how an editor can hold a paper under review unnecessarily, culminating in a total review time of almost two years. Such delays hinder important data from being shared quickly with the public and with...
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Personal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 5 – Genital Mutilation Paper Under Review for Two Years
In Story 4 of my personal experiences with ideological drama in academic peer review, we learned how incompetent and biased editors and reviewers slow the review process. This then delays findings, which go against their beliefs, from being published. We also learned of the increased tendency for...
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Personal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 4 – Gender Word Police
In Story 3 of my personal experiences with ideological drama in academic peer review, we learned how editorial safetyism, caused by a worry to publish something that might be deemed “controversial,” delays important and corrective information from being published. We also learned that this occurs...
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Personal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 3 – Editorial Safetyism and “Gender-Based Violence"
In Story 2 of my personal experiences with ideological drama in academic peer review, we learned of a peer reviewer at the journal Sports Medicine who rejected one of my papers because I presented data to support my position that volunteer self-selection bias might be a contributing factor to…
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Personal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 2 – “Data be Damned…Perceptions Trump Data"
In Story 1 of my personal experiences with ideological drama in academic peer review, we learned of an editorial assistant who resigned from her post because the journal she worked for decided to accept for publication my forthcoming paper on Woke medicine. This was certainly an unusual and...
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Personal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 1 – Woke Resignation
Academic peer review is the process by which professors critique their colleagues’ research to determine whether the research is of sufficient quality to be published in a journal and thus made available for public consumption. Contemporary peer review is littered with many issues. It is often...
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Men: The Martyrs of Medicine
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…
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What’s in an Exercise Name?
Let’s pretend for a moment that I am your personal trainer or strength coach. I advise you that for your Monday workouts, I want you to perform the following exercises: the arm curl, the overhead press, the hamstring curl, and the heel raise. I then advise you that for your Thursday workouts, I...
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A Reading of our Letter to the White House on Boys’ and Men’s Health
On January 9th of this year, the Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men, headed by Dr. Warren Farrell, published an open letter addressed to the President and First Lady of the United States, calling for more attention to boys’ and men’s health issues. The letter is available...
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Body Weight and the Feminisation of the Australian Football League
A news report on January 13th revealed that the Australia Football League, or AFL, is implementing a new policy where player body weights will no longer be listed in the official season guide. This may come as a surprise to many of you who closely follow sports and know that body weight is a...
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Continued Debate About Female Underrepresentation in Exercise Studies
Our letter: “Women and men report unequal interest in participating in exercise research” Their reply: “Reply to Nuzzo and Deaner: “Investigator bias” is a potent influence on the underrepresentation of women research participants in biomedical research” Their paper: “Underrepresentation of women...
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A Lie About Women in Exercise Studies Before 1975
Women as participants in research trials continues to be a hot topic. In one previous post, I presented data showing that, even though we often hear claims that women are underrepresented as research participants, data from the Office on Research on Women’s Health clearly show this to be untrue....
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There Is Still No Women’s Health Crisis
These days, it is not too difficult to find an academic paper or news article that states that women are “underrepresented” as participants in medical research trials. In fact, in this week’s press release from the White House, in which it announced the creation of a White House Initiative on...
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