October 8, 2009
Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.” My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does ...
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October 8, 2009
The Daily Mail has published a story that attempts to explain how the contraceptive pill might cause women to be attracted to less masculine men and how taking the pill makes women less attractive to men. This is a great example of how scientific research is often drastically misrepresented by the media and how the ...
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