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The Nuzzo LetterSex-Biased PollstersOn 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 asked to indicate which issues they believe are a “major problem,” “minor problem,” or “not a problem at all.” The results can be seen in the figure below.Roughly 80-85% of poll participants reported a belief that cancer, overweight and obesity, heart disease, and opioid addiction are “major problems.” Alzheimer...2025-07-2409 min
The Nuzzo LetterNational Academies’ Grand Plan for the NIH Office of Research on Women’s HealthThe 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 strengthen, develop, and increase research into diseases, disorders, and conditions that are unique to, more prevalent among, or more serious in women, or for which there are different risk factors for women than for men;(2) to ensure that women are appropriately represented in biomedical and biobeh...2025-07-1723 min
Honey Badger RadioJames L. Nuzzo, PHD on UN Women and what's behind the curtain | Fireside Chat 263Join us on the Fireside Chat as we speak with researcher and men's health specialist James L. Nuzzo. James is a dual citizen of the United States and Australia. Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Dr. Nuzzo moved to Sydney, Australia in 2013 to pursue a PhD in exercise physiology. He currently resides in Perth, Western Australia.2025-07-1158 min
The Nuzzo LetterEarly Exercise Researchers Did Not Ignore WomenOn 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 early physical exercise research because much early research on exercise would have been conducted in the fields of physical therapy and physical education. Those two fields pre-dated exercise science, had their own journals, and had large representations of female professors and students.In the essay, I included photographs from papers published in the...2025-07-0409 min
The Nuzzo Letter“Mankeeping” - Academia’s Latest Attack on MenJust 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 University. The title of their paper was, “Theorizing Mankeeping: The Male Friendship Recession and Women’s Associated Labor as a Structural Component of Gender Inequality.”“Mankeeping” adds to the litany of words and concepts that academics have created to ridicule the male sex. Other examples include “toxic masculinity,” “m...2025-06-2620 min
The Nuzzo LetterMen, Masculinity, and Movies: One Thing Kevin Sorbo Got WrongIn 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 boys positive role models to look up to.In addition to critiquing Hollywood for frequently portraying fathers as “bumbling, useless idiots,” who do not contribute to their families or communities in positive ways, and who are “the butt of every woke Hollywood jab,” Sorbo also criticized Hollywood for exposing audie...2025-06-1215 min
The Nuzzo LetterCanada’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 with broader societal interest and medical need.At The Nuzzo Letter, I have previously shown that substantial differences exist in funding of men’s and women’s health research in Australia and the United States (U.S.). In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) invests about five...2025-04-1027 min
Yoga With Jake PodcastDr. James Nuzzo: Differences Between Men & Women in Exercise Science. Men’s Health Research Isn’t a Zero-Sum Pursuit. How Ideological Language Infiltrates Science.Dr. James L. Nuzzo isan exercise scientist and men’s health researcher. Dr. Nuzzo has published over 80 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he writes regularly about exercise, men’s health, and academia at The Nuzzo Letter on Substack. Dr. Nuzzo is also active on X @JamesLNuzzo.James' Substack: https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/Support the show2025-04-071h 22
The Nuzzo LetterAustralia’s Federal Budget Forgets MenOn 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 health is a “national priority."According to government documents and Nine News, $793 million has been budgeted for women’s health. This money has been labelled “critical” and entails the following, according to Nine News:* $134.3 million for insertion and removal of long-acting reversible contraceptives by nurse practitioners* $109.1 million to fun...2025-04-0318 min
The Nuzzo LetterBrothers 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 There a Bias Against Women in Research?”To the extent that women have been less frequent participants in certain types of research published in specific journals in certain years, this does not then necessitate a conclusion of discrimination against potential female participants. For one, participation in research is not...2025-03-2512 min
The Nuzzo LetterAnti-Male Bias in Contemporary AcademiaRecently, 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 the data in a sex-segregated way such that separate trend lines are shown for male and female degree earners. The analysis revealed that the field has experienced substantial growth over the past 20 years and that the number of women earning bachelor’s degrees in the field has exceeded the nu...2025-03-2115 min
The Nuzzo LetterWomen’s Viewership of Women’s SportsA 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 agencies and academic journals have advised that data, when acquired in studies that include both male and female participants, be segregated by sex. Fair enough.Given this long history of sex differences research, and the continued and proper emphasis on segregating future scientific data by sex, I have remained perplexed at the difficulty in trac...2025-03-0713 min
The Nuzzo LetterMen Putting the Brakes on Exercise Science DegreesIn 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 the education journal associated with American Physiological Society.The reason I examined the number of degrees earned in exercise science is because such information is not monitored by professional exercise science organizations in the U.S. Consequently, whether the exercise science field is growing, stagnating, or retracting remains unclear.Fo...2025-02-2412 min
America in View Political News PodcastTop News Stories of the Week & Beating Back ESG and DEI with Special Guest Sal NuzzoOn this week's show, Brett and Matt are talking about some of this week’s top news stories and discussing the fight against ESG and DEI with special guest Sal Nuzzo, Executive Director of Consumers Defense and formerly with the James Madison Institute.2025-01-3143 min
The Nuzzo LetterGender Equity at Curtin UniversityCurtin 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 the job advertisement:“The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University is excited to be expanding the Girls Engineering Tomorrow program, and we are looking for a dedicated and passionate STEM Outreach Officer to join our team and help inspire the next generation of STEM superstars! This role is all about conn...2025-01-2011 min
The Nuzzo LetterDead Men and the Bureau of Labor StatisticsOn 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 injuries in the U.S. in 2023. The Bureau then displays the results in a bar graph, labelled “Chart 1.” Chart 1 shows the number of fatal work injuries in the U.S. each year from 2014 to 2023. From the graph, one learns that the average number of work fatalities per year since 2014 has been abou...2025-01-0212 min
The Nuzzo LetterTaylor Lorenz and the Counterfactual of a Murdered Female CEOOn 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 irrational and unhinged remarks about social and political issues. A few days after the murder of Thompson, Lorenz participated in a panel discussion about the case on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During the discussion, Lorenz said that she felt “joy” and “certainly not empathy” after hearing the news of Thompson’s death. Loren...2024-12-1307 min
The Nuzzo LetterCommunist China and Exercise Science PublishingOn 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 discussed previously at The Nuzzo Letter, is an amount of exercise that does not meet recommended exercise guidelines but that still has the potential to improve health and function. I was likely asked be a part of the consensus paper because of a review that colleagues and I pu...2024-11-0819 min
The Nuzzo LetterFewer 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 46.5%. In 2020, 68.4% of the adult female population voted compared to 65% of the adult male population.Nevertheless, I did not previously discuss why fewer men than women vote in U.S. elections. In fact, that fewer men than women vote in elections seems somewhat contradictory at the surface...2024-11-0112 min
The Nuzzo LetterA 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 asked her and 15 other prominent women in 1968 about what they would do if they were President of the United States (U.S.).Ayn Rand moved from Russia to the U.S. in 1926. She was the founder Objectivism – a philosophy that integrated reason and logi...2024-10-1522 min
PsychobabbleThe Rise of Woke Medicine: Dr. James Nuzzo on Social Justice in AcademiaIn episode 20 of Psychobabble, we sit down with Dr. James Nuzzo, a published researcher and expert in exercise science and Men’s Health, to discuss his widely read paper ““Woke” nomenclature in health research." Dr. Nuzzo shares his first-hand experiences navigating social justice-driven research and battling with peer reviewers who prioritize politics over science. From the frustrations of trying to get published to the broader consequences on patient care, we explore how ideological bias is reshaping scientific research and the pressures academics face for challenging the status quo. Dr. Nuzzo pulls no punches as he reveals the growing risks to resea...2024-09-1849 min
Dr Joe UnpluggedEp 64. James Nuzzo PhD and Research That Won’t Make the Legacy MediaJame Nuzzo PhD joins Dr Joe to talk about studies which are important but wont get publicity because they question the narrative
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4. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/being-more-flexible-help-people-live-longer#Checking-flexibility-across-20-areas-in-the-body
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The Nuzzo LetterMen: The Intellectual Giants of Exercise ScienceIn 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 – Jos de Koning and Carl Foster. de Koning and Foster asked 52 male and female exercise science academics, who varied in subdiscipline expertise and who had been journal editors at some point in their careers, to each nominate 25 papers that they thought were “essential readings” for exercise science students. de Koning and Foster conducted...2024-07-2512 min
The Nuzzo LetterNIH Reveals “New” Research Areas for Women’s HealthPreviously, 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 on Women’s Health, in coordination with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), issued a Notice of Special Interest to inform researchers of the organization’s interest in receiving applications for research studies that are focused on diseases and health conditions that predominantly impact women, including, but not limite...2024-07-1210 minDr Joe UnpluggedEp 45. James Nuzzo PhD and the Rise of Woke ResearchDr Joe is joined by Dr James Nuzzo to talk about strength training mens health, and problems in medical research. They also go down the rabbit hole of “peer review”. This may surprise or shock you.
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The Nuzzo LetterGynocentrism in Biomedical ResearchOn 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 done by women’s health researchers and startup companies.The $100 million dollars adds to the oodles of money already poured into women’s health research through government bureaus such as the Office for Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nevertheless, this did not stop Fir...2024-06-2712 min
The Nuzzo LetterNew Research Confirms the Rise of Woke MedicineIn 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 published online earlier this month, and what follows is a description of the content that one woman found so provocative. Consider this your official “trigger warning.”“Woke” is a colloquial term used to describe a raised consciousness or awareness of suggested social injus...2024-06-2016 min
The Nuzzo LetterThe Muscle Fatigue CurveLet 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 perform as many repetitions as possible during each set. For example, you might choose the biceps curl exercise and a dumbbell weight that allows you to complete 30 repetitions in your first set before failing on your 31st attempt.My question for you is...2024-06-1312 min
The Nuzzo LetterHistory 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 on their sex. Men and women were to receive equal opportunities to participate in educational programs, including school sports.“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education pr...2024-05-3118 min
The Nuzzo LetterMinimal Dose Resistance ExerciseThere 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 admissions.The most effective way to maintain or improve one’s muscle strength is by participating in resistance exercise with free weights or weight machines or by completing other muscle-strengthening activities such push-ups, pull-ups, or other body weight exercises.Though decades of research has shown that resistance exercise is medicine, with regular participation ca...2024-05-1014 min
The Victor Dalziel PodcastWOKE MADNESS in Australian Universities with DR JAMES NUZZODr James Nuzzo is an adjunct senior lecturer in exercise science and the author of over 70 peer-reviewed research articles. Dr. Nuzzo publishes essays and podcasts regularly at his Substack page, The Nuzzo Letter. He can also be found on X @JamesLNuzzo.
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The Nuzzo LetterPersonal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 6 – Rejected by a Copyeditor Stand-in for Big Public HealthIn 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 other researchers.Story 6 – the last story in this series – is similar to all the preceding stories in that it reflects the impact of reviewer bias and editorial cowardice. However, it is also different than all other stories in that it did not have a happy ending of paper acce...2024-03-2811 min
The Nuzzo LetterPersonal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 5 – Genital Mutilation Paper Under Review for Two YearsIn 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 such delays to occur when the research in question deals with sex or gender. In the case of Story 4, the total review time for our simple survey study was 1.5 years – an unacceptable length of time for peer review. Yet, this is not the longest amount of time that one of my papers on a...2024-03-2110 min
The Nuzzo LetterPersonal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 4 – Gender Word PoliceIn 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 when the topic being discussed has to deal with sex or gender. Story 4 is another example of the issues that exist within peer review when one attempts to say that sex differences exist, and one is unlucky enough to have a social constructionist or determinist review their paper On April 16, 2022, we submitted a pape...2024-03-1410 min
The Nuzzo LetterPersonal 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 fewer female than male participants in certain exercise research trials. The reviewer stated “Data be damned, I know women are understudied and you will not convince me otherwise. Perceptions trump data.”What we learned from Story 2 was that some peer reviewers are cognitively unfit for the job, and they are...2024-03-0710 min
The Nuzzo LetterPersonal 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 dramatic tale, but the story I am about to share, Story 2, is my most concerning experience with peer review In 2020, I submitted an opinion article to the high-ranking exercise journal, Sports Medicine. In the paper, I commented on the hot-button issue of female participant “underrepresentation.” In my paper, I challenged the...2024-02-2906 min
The Nuzzo LetterPersonal Drama in Academic Peer Review: Story 1 – Woke ResignationAcademic 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 slow. Some submissions might take several months to a year or more to proceed through the review process. And this is just for a single submission of a paper. Some papers will need to be submitted to multiple journals before they are finally published. By the time a study’s results appe...2024-02-2208 min
The Nuzzo LetterMen: The Martyrs of MedicineHistory 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 the moment are not as good as they could be. Either way, history informs.Recently, while searching for information on the history of medicine, I came across a paper, published in 1959, about typhoid vaccination in the United States (U.S.). The article, which was titled “The initial ef...2024-02-0812 min
The Nuzzo LetterWhat’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 want you to perform the biceps curl, the shoulder press, the knee flexion, and the calf raise.Thus, for your Monday and Thursday workouts, I have given you eight different exercises to perform. Haven’t I?The four...2024-01-3010 min
The Nuzzo LetterA Reading of our Letter to the White House on Boys’ and Men’s HealthOn 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 online and also displayed below. As a member of the Coalition, and one of the architects and co-authors of the letter, I thought I would read it aloud here.Related Content at The Nuzzo LetterSUPPORT THE NUZZO LETTERIf you...2024-01-2305 min
The Nuzzo LetterBody Weight and the Feminisation of the Australian Football LeagueA 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 descriptive metric of players that has been reported for many years in various sports. So, why the change?According to the report, the AFL has deemed that body weight is private information and inappropriate for publication. No other details on the...2024-01-1510 min
The Nuzzo LetterContinued Debate About Female Underrepresentation in Exercise StudiesOur 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 in exercise science and physiology research is associated with authorship gender”Our survey study:“Men and women differ in their interest and willingness to participate in exercise and sports science research”Related Content at The Nuzzo LetterSUPPORT THE NUZZO LETTERIf you...2024-01-1332 min
Trending Globally: Politics and PolicyAfter four years of COVID-19, are we safer against future pandemics?This December marks four years since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. On this episode of Trending Globally, Dan Richards speaks with two experts from the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health about the ways our society’s approach to public health has changed since 2019. They discuss how we should be thinking about COVID-19 in our daily lives, the unexpected ways international conflicts have changed conversations around pandemic preparedness, and what the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 can teach us about how societies learn from disasters.Guest on today’s episo...2023-12-1329 min
The Nuzzo LetterA Lie About Women in Exercise Studies Before 1975Women 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. Their data show that each year women comprise more than 50% of participants in research trials that are funded by the National Institutes of Health, or NIH.The topic of representation of women as research participants is also a hot button issue within the field of exercise and sp...2023-12-0117 min
The Nuzzo LetterThere Is Still No Women’s Health CrisisThese 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 Women’s Health Research, the underrepresentation of women as participants in health research was mentioned in the press release’s first sentence.By underrepresented, authors mean that women are being excluded from participating in research studies, or that researchers are not taking an interest in women’s health iss...2023-11-1609 min
The Nuzzo Letter“What Will happen When Bobby Knight Dies?” – An Essay That I Never FinishedFor several years, I have had scribbled down in my notes an idea for an essay that I had planned to title, “What will happen when Bobby Knight dies?”Obviously, I never got around to writing this essay, and on November 1, 2023, legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight passed away. Here, I want to share some notes that I had written for this unfinished essay. I think the notes will suffice for understanding what the essay was intended to be about.In the essay, I was going to present the idea that society is not perhaps adequately repl...2023-11-0207 min
The Nuzzo LetterDisproportionately Fewer Funds for Men’s Health Research in AustraliaIn 2022, American astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss brought international attention to Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) by writing an essay in Quillette about the bias against men within the agency. The NHMRC resides within the Australian federal government and is tasked with funding much of the country’s health and medical research. Krauss’ criticism of the agency centred around a new policy that was informed by their Gender Equality Strategy and designed to “address systematic disadvantage faced by female and non-binary applicants to its Investigator Grant scheme.” The NHMRC’s policy is a gender quota system, which was establis...2023-11-0210 min
The Nuzzo LetterThe Repetitions-%1RM Relationship Updated After 20 yearsI want you to pretend for a moment that today is your first day lifting weights at the gym. You have a hired a personal trainer to create and guide you through a resistance exercise program. In one of your first sessions with your personal trainer, they assess your maximal strength. They do this by testing, what is called, the one repetition maximum or 1RM. The 1RM is the maximal amount of weight that you can lift for a given exercise. For the sake of this example, we will say that your trainer has tested your 1RM on the...2023-10-1812 min
The Nuzzo LetterOne Million Dollars for Research on “Gender Equity” in Motor Vehicle AccidentsOn September 13th, here on The Nuzzo Letter, I discussed an advertisement for research grants aimed at funding projects in Australia that “address equity issues across the entire higher education student lifecycle.” I explained that the grants were intended to help improve higher education outcomes for six groups. One of the groups was “women in non-traditional areas” while the other groups were based on demographic characteristics that were not gender-specific but that were generally associated with poorer educational outcomes. That men were not considered a cohort of their own in this call for grants was unusual given that in Australi...2023-10-0509 min
The Nuzzo LetterWomen’s Studies – On the Rise or Fading Away?The field of women’s studies, sometimes called gender studies, concerns itself with the lives and experiences of girls and women. It is defined by the National Center for Education Statistics in the United States as:“A program that focuses on the history, sociology, politics, culture, and economics of women, and the development of modern feminism in relation to the roles played by women in different periods and locations in North America and the world. Programs may focus on literature, philosophy, and the arts as much as on social studies and policy.”This is a forgiv...2023-09-2109 min
The Nuzzo LetterAustralian Research Grant for Equity in Higher Education Ignores MenRecently, while searching for research grants to support my own projects, I came across a call for grant applications advertised by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE). This is an organisation housed within Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.The call for grants was termed the Small Grants Research Program. A total of 13 grants valued at $30,000 to $50,000 Australian dollars could be applied for. According to the advertisement, the program “fund[s] proposals that address equity issues across the entire higher education student lifecycle.”The organization listed six groups that their funds coul...2023-09-1307 min
Sports Science DudesEpisode 42 - James Nuzzo PhD - Dissecting Sex Differences in Fiber Types, Women in Research, and Men's HealthIn a riveting conversation with researcher Dr. James L Nuzzo, we dissect the differences in skeletal muscle fiber types between men and women. James brings unique insights from his meta-analysis of over 100 studies, unraveling fascinating intricacies about muscle power and strength differences between men and women. Then, we turn the spotlight on the less examined subject of gender differences in exercise sciences and academia. The absence of discourse on the physiological disparities between men and women, the controversy of transgender females competing against biological females, and the need for a proactive dialogue in this realm are just some of t...2023-08-1652 min
The Nuzzo LetterThe Time I Stopped a Perth CriminalIn June of this year, I entered the Joondalup Shopping Centre in Perth, Western Australia to grab a couple of groceries on my way to work. I entered from the south entrance. I walked down the southern corridor toward one of the food courts at the centre of the mall. The food court serves as a sort of four-way intersection for mall traffic. As I approached the intersection, I could see a man walking through the food court from the western corridor to my right. The man was thin, White, tall, and his 30s or 40s. He was walking...2023-07-2709 min
The Nuzzo LetterFeminism’s Negative Impact on Men’s HealthIn the United States, life expectancy for men is 5.9 years less than it is for women. A number of factors contribute to this sex difference. Deaths from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and occupational and motor vehicle accidents are all more common among men than women. Men are also more likely to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, leading to greater lifetime prevalence of drug-use disorder. Men are also more likely to end their own lives. Seventy-nine percent of all suicides in the United States are committed by men.Given these health data, along with greater prevalence rates of...2023-07-2609 min
The Nuzzo LetterSex Differences in Muscle Fibre TypesThe muscles that make up your body are composed of individual muscle fibres. Think of the biceps muscle of your arm as a handful of spaghetti strands. Each strand of spaghetti represents a long muscle fibre that runs from the front of your shoulder to the inner crease of your elbow. However, not all spaghetti strands are necessarily the same, nor are all of the muscle fibres that make up your biceps muscles or other muscles of your body.Skeletal muscle fibres differ from each other based on their biochemical and physiological properties. Based on such properties...2023-07-2308 min
The Nuzzo LetterPhysical Activity is a Right Not a "Right"Participation in physical exercise is important for one’s mental and physical wellbeing. Decades of research supports this conclusion. With such evidence in their back pockets, some exercise activists have started to proclaim that physical activity is a “right.” For example, a group in England called the Sport and Recreation Alliance is petitioning government to “give every child the fundamental right to be active.” The Alliance has stated that it wants the passage of laws that require councils to “provide all children with the opportunity to be active and to coordinate and promote physical activity across everything they do.” Moreover, the...2023-07-1110 min
The Nuzzo LetterFree Will and the Need for a Romantic Revolution at the CinemaAre you frustrated with movies coming out of Hollywood today? Are you tired of the endless numbers of remakes and sequels? Are you unsatisfied with the stories that have no impact on your emotions other than to make you cringe? Or perhaps you are annoyed by the political messaging that is forced into movie scripts? Or maybe you have simply had enough of bad acting?If you answered yes to these questions, you have my deepest sympathies. We are in the midst of a regress in romantic art, and we need to work our way out of...2023-06-3005 min
The Nuzzo LetterCowardice and Anonymous Editorials in Biomedical Research JournalsAcademic publishing is currently experiencing a number of problems. Authorship inflation, long review times, and lack of payment for reviewers’ work in appraising manuscripts are just a couple of examples. Here, I highlight another issue in academic publishing – one that has received little attention, but that readers of scientific journals should be aware of.Editorials in academic journals are brief pieces written by the journal’s editors about findings from new studies, about journal news, or about broader trends in research and medical practice. In 2019, I discovered an editorial published in Lancet Public Health [1] that stated some questi...2023-06-2406 min
The Nuzzo LetterStrength Equipment and the Good in MenIn contemporary society, we are bombarded with negative messages about men. We are told that men “toxic” and “privileged,” and we are given the impression that most men are abusers of women. In media, you will be hard pressed to find stories that talk about masculinity, and men as a group, in a positive light. Here, I want to change that. I want to highlight an unrecognized good that men have provided to the world.Strength training, also known as resistance exercise, weight training, or weight lifting, is a form of physical activity that has been practiced since at...2023-06-2311 min
The Nuzzo Letter"Gender-Based Violence" and Exercise ScienceIn August of 2020, one the highest ranked exercise science journals, called Sports Medicine, published a commentary titled, “Gender-based violence is a blind spot for sports and exercise medicine professionals.” The commentary was problematic for a variety reasons, and this prompted Dr. John Barry of the Centre for Male Psychology, Deborah Powney of the University of Central Lancashire, and me to team up to write a letter to the journal’s editor challenging the ideas put forward in the paper. Because our letter is not available open access, I will read it aloud here. However, before reading it, I thought I woul...2023-06-1415 min
The Nuzzo LetterFemale Exercise Scientists and the Failure to Protect Women’s SportsBiological males are now competing against biological females in sports. Biological males have various physical advantages over biological females, rendering this new form of athletic competition problematic. The purpose here is not to revisit the various ways in which men are advantaged over women in sports. Instead, the purpose is to highlight the failure of female exercise scientists to play a prominent intellectual role in protecting women’s sports.Exercise science, which is the study of the physiological, biomechanical, and psychological causes of and responses to physical activity and exercise, is one of the fastest growing academic ma...2023-05-3010 min
The Nuzzo LetterAUDIO: Preview of my forthcoming paper on sex differences in exercise research This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jameslnuzzo.substack.com2023-05-2202 min
The Nuzzo LetterMy Rejected Letter on Race, Homicide, and Men's HealthIn November of 2020, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine published a paper titled, “Homicide mortality inequities in the 30 biggest cities in the U.S.” A few months after the paper was published, in April of 2021, I submitted a letter to the journal’s editor, challenging some of the ideas put forward in the paper. The editor rejected my letter. The reasons for the rejection were not entirely clear but projected insincerity.The topic of race and homicide is relevant to the fields of male psychology and men’s health, and we are in need of open, honest, and evid...2023-05-2204 min
Beyond PolicySal Nuzzo and Lindsey Killen - The Cons of CON | Beyond Policy Episode 3In this episode of Beyond Policy, Sal Nuzzo and Lindsey Killen of the James Madison Institute (Florida) join Dr. Smith for a deep dive into the effects of Florida's recent innovation in healthcare: repealing its ancient "Certificate of Need" (CON) law.
After a brief digression into the advantages of Darlington over Daytona, they discuss how South Carolina's CON statute hurts patients by limiting competition and innovation in healthcare in the Palmetto State.
Learn how continuing to require a Certificate of Need from the state in healthcare means less access and higher costs for rural residents...2023-02-2443 min
Conversations: Special Guests with Preston ScottSal Nuzzo Discusses Property Insurance Special SessionThe Vice President of Policy at the James Madison Institute, Sal Nuzzo is fully invested in Florida's legislative climate. A second Special Session was called by Gov. Ron DeSantis to deal with property insurance problems in the state. Preston discussed what Gov. DeSantis has signed from the regular session, then moved to the special session.2022-05-2425 min
Sounds Profitable en EspañolPotential New IAB Standards Revealed + 5 more stories for May 6, 2022This week on The Download: potential new IAB standards are revealed, advertisers reflect on a year of iOS-enforced privacy, and Facebook is losing the confidence of its customers.
Last Thursday Ryan Barwick, writing for MarketingBrew, published a look at some promising new standards the IAB Tech Lab is toying with in anticipation of a, as Barwick puts it, “cookieless future.”
With the evolution of online privacy advertising must change with it, and the IAB is experimenting with replacing existing data-collection structures with seller-defined audiences, or SDAs. Instead of adtech using tracking methods to use col...2022-05-0609 minConversations: Special Guests with Preston ScottSal Nuzzo Discusses 2022 Florida Legislative Session, Previews Special SessionWhat bills have been signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which ones are waiting? Plus there will be at least one special session and Sal Nuzzo of the James Madison Institute offers insight and analysis.2022-04-2025 minConversations: Special Guests with Preston ScottSal Nuzzo Florida Legislative Update 030722As the 2022 Florida legislative session circles for a landing, Sal Nuzzo of the James Madison Institute tells you what's on board, what got jetisoned, and what may survive touchdown.2022-03-0725 min
Pundits on the PorchSecretary Jonathan SatterOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Sal Nuzzo and Logan Padgett interview the Secretary of Florida's Department of Management Services, Jonathan Satter.
The post Secretary Jonathan Satter appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-04-2600 minPundits on the PorchSecretary Mark InchOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Sal Nuzzo and Logan Padgett interview the secretary of Florida's Department of Corrections, Mark Inch.
The post Secretary Mark Inch appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-04-2400 minPundits on the PorchAjit PaiOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Sal Nuzzo and Logan Padgett interview the Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, Ajit Pai about the FCC's response to the coronavirus.
The post Ajit Pai appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-04-0800 minPundits on the PorchWilliam Mattox and Sal NuzzoOn this episode of Pundits on Porch, JMI's Sal Nuzzo and William Mattox talk about some of the legislative successes that came out of Florida's 2020 legislative session.
The post William Mattox and Sal Nuzzo appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-04-0600 minPundits on the PorchSal Nuzzo and Dr. Bob McClure- COVID-19On this episode of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo and Dr. Bob McClure discuss COVID-19 and the policy solutions that will enable greater deployment of resources to help screen, test, triage, and treat the infected.
The post Sal Nuzzo and Dr. Bob McClure- COVID-19 appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-03-3000 minPundits on the PorchRepresentative Jamie GrantOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Vice President of Policy Sal Nuzzo interviews Representative Jamie Grant.
The post Representative Jamie Grant appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-02-2700 minPundits on the PorchSecretary Halsey BeshearsOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Vice President of Policy Sal Nuzzo interviews Secretary Halsey Beshears. Halsey Beshears is the secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. He is also a former member of the Florida House of Representatives. Nuzzo and Secretary Beshears discuss occupational licensing reform in [...]
The post Secretary Halsey Beshears appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-02-1800 minPundits on the PorchExecutive Director Danny BurgessOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Vice President of Policy, Sal Nuzzo interviews the Executive Director of the Florida Department of Veteran's Affairs, Danny Burgess. FDVA is the premier point of entry for Florida’s more than 1.5 million veterans. The agency operates a network of seven state veterans’ homes and provides [...]
The post Executive Director Danny Burgess appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-02-0400 minPundits on the PorchSecretary Simone MarstillerOn the episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Vice President of Policy Sal Nuzzo interviews Secretary of Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice Simone Marstiller.
The post Secretary Simone Marstiller appeared first on James Madison Institute.2020-01-0700 minPundits on the PorchAnessa Allen SantosOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo interviews Anessa Allen Santos at JMI's 2019 Tech and Innovation Summit about blockchain technology. Anessa is the founder and managing attorney at IntelliLaw.
The post Anessa Allen Santos appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-10-2200 minPundits on the PorchTony CarvajalOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo interviews Tony Carvajal, Executive Vice President of the Florida Chamber Foundation. Tony and Sal discuss the Chamber's 2030 project. By 2030, Florida will add five million more residents. Are our roads and bridges ready? Do we have enough clean water, enough energy capacity and [...]
The post Tony Carvajal appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-09-1700 minPundits on the PorchSecretary Mary MayhewOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo interviews Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Mary Mayhew. Secretary Mayhew is the the former Maine commissioner of Health and Human Services. Most recently, Mayhew served as the deputy administrator and director of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program for the Centers for [...]
The post Secretary Mary Mayhew appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-07-2300 minPundits on the PorchChelsea MurphyAs part of JMI's 2019 Legislative Session Wrap-Up series of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo interviews Chelsea Murphy about criminal justice policy. Chelsea Murphy is the Florida State Director for Right on Crime. Sal and Chelsea discuss the criminal justice policy wins during Florida's 2019 Legislative Session and the policies that didn't quite [...]
The post Chelsea Murphy appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-07-0900 minPundits on the PorchEd MooreAs part of a special series of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo sits down with Dr. Ed Moore to talk about how the 2019 Florida Legislative Session compares with other historical Florida legislative sessions.
The post Ed Moore appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-06-2500 minPundits on the PorchDr. Bob McClure and Sal NuzzoOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, Dr. Bob McClure and Sal Nuzzo discuss healthcare policy as part of the 2019 Legislative Session series of Pundits on the Porch. McClure and Nuzzo run through the healthcare bills that advanced and failed throughout the 60 day session.
The post Dr. Bob McClure and Sal Nuzzo appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-05-2800 minPundits on the PorchWilliam MattoxOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, Sal Nuzzo interviews William Mattox, Director of the J. Stanley Marshall Center for Educational Options at The James Madison Institute about education policy victories as part of a mini podcast series on the 2019 Legislative Session.
The post William Mattox appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-05-1500 minPundits on the PorchChris KoopmanOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, JMI's Vice President of Policy Sal Nuzzo interview Chris Koopman, Senior Director of Strategy and Research at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. Chris is also the Adjunct Director of JMI's new Center for Technology and Telecommunications. The mission of the Center for Technology [...]
The post Chris Koopman appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-04-2500 minPundits on the PorchDr. David Gesko and Katie LeiviskaOn this episode of "Pundits on the Porch," JMI's Vice President of Policy Sal Nuzzo interviews Dr. David Gesko and Advanced Dental Therapist Katie Leiviska about their experience with dental therapy in Minnesota. Dental therapists are mid-level dental practitioners whose scope of practice is primarily focused on routine preventative and restorative care. They work within [...]
The post Dr. David Gesko and Katie Leiviska appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-03-1200 minPundits on the PorchDr. Frank CatalanottoOn this episode of Pundits on the Porch, hosts Sal Nuzzo and Dr. Bob McClure interviews Dr. Frank Catalanotto. Dr. Catalanotto is a pediatric dentist. Sal and Dr. Catalanotta discuss the issue of dental therapy in Florida. Dental therapists are mid-level dental practitioners whose scope of practice is primarily focused on routine preventative and restorative [...]
The post Dr. Frank Catalanotto appeared first on James Madison Institute.2019-03-0500 min
BUDDHA BEATSBuddha Beats — Episode 33In Episode 33, I return to one of my favorite genres: Techno. This blistering mix features some of the amazing tracks I've gathered, from Kolsch's "Gra" and it's Blade-Runner-like tendencies through Samuel L. Session's dance floor monster "Can You Relate" and Marco Piangiamore's "System V" on his own SKYNET imprint laying waste to anything in its path, down to the close of the set with Faberlique's hauntingly exquisite "Sleep Blind" deftly remixed by Makarti. I feel the extra time I spent searching for these tracks was well worth being a week late in getting this episode out, and I hope y...2017-11-231h 24
Pantsuit PoliticsTesting President TrumpFirst up, Trump and Kellyanne fight with Nordstrom. Trump earlier this week tweeted that "My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person – always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!" (And it was retweeted by the official @POTUS account) Then, Kellyanne stated on Fox & Friends: "Go buy Ivanka's stuff, is what I would tell you," Conway said. "It's a wonderful line. I own some of it. I fully -- I'm going to just, I'm going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it onl...2017-02-1454 minPantsuit PoliticsTesting President TrumpFirst up, Trump and Kellyanne fight with Nordstrom. Trump earlier this week tweeted that "My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person – always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!" (And it was retweeted by the official @POTUS account) Then, Kellyanne stated on Fox & Friends: "Go buy Ivanka's stuff, is what I would tell you," Conway said. "It's a wonderful line. I own some of it. I fully -- I'm going to just, I'm going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it onl...2017-02-1454 min
Summit SessionsSummit Sessions 183 with NuKastleBrian Bacchus
Paul Kalkbrenner - Cloud Rider (Solomun remix)
Ron Trent, Robert Owens - Deep Down (Mr. Fingers Remix)
Paul McCartney, Wings, Timo Maas & James Teej - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (Paul McCartney & Wings Vs. Timo Maas & James Teej) [Tim Green Remix]
Fausto Fanizza,Susie Ledge,Thomas Schwartz - I Can't Be Found (Original Mix)
Bystander & Give In - Stay Down
Massive Attack - Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit (FEM & Quentin Schneider Edit)
Lessovsky feat. Aden Ray - The One (Original Mix)
AFFKT feat Sutja Gutierrez - FlashCrash (Renato Cohen remix) Sincopat44
Right Jab - Brown (Original Mix)
Kasall...2016-10-052h 00
Bass Agenda BroadcastsBass Agenda 121: Interview & Guest mix from JAMES WOLFEEach show I ask an electronic music producer to select some tracks that are important to them:
(1) Track/s that influenced their starting to make music
(2) Track/s that have blown them away recently
(3) Their favourite own production(s)
Part 1 - James Wolfe (USA) Interview & selections
Illektrolab & 4th Genome - Bass Agenda Intro
F8 - Welcome To My Life
James Wolfe - TransBass V2
Korrupted Brothers - You Know The Business
N-Ter - Life (James Wolfe remix)
Bahamut - Planet-E (Scratch D of Dynamix II and James Wolfe remix)
Techtonic Plates - Electric Charge
James Wolfe - Baddest Bitch In...2016-01-292h 00
Bass AgendaBass Agenda 121: Interview & Guest mix from JAMES WOLFEEach show I ask an electronic music producer to select some tracks that are important to them:(1) Track/s that influenced their starting to make music(2) Track/s that have blown them away recently(3) Their favourite own production(s)Part 1 - James Wolfe (USA) Interview & selections Illektrolab & 4th Genome - Bass Agenda IntroF8 - Welcome To My LifeJames Wolfe - TransBass V2Korrupted Brothers - You Know The BusinessN-Ter - Life (James Wolfe remix)Bahamut - Planet-E (Scratch D of Dynamix II and James Wolfe remix)Techtonic Plates - Electric ChargeJames Wolfe - Baddest Bitch In Da ClubHydrashock - NFiLTR8...2016-01-291h 59