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by hereme888 2378 days ago
I don't think that article provides any reason to discredit her, or the average differences in the size and density of different brain regions, which is what I was referring to.

In fact, that article presumes that Dr. Brizendine's footnotes provide any source for that particular statement you're concerned about, when in fact it doesn't. Her book is clear in her footnotes to which of her statements they apply, and none are cited to that.

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Ah, so instead of bogus citations, she provided no citations at all. Glad we cleared that up!
Your skeptic attitude is baseless. Her book is not meant to be an academic text. It's a casual read by an MD. You think an MD writing a casual book should cite everything? Ridiculous.
She makes the very specific claim that "85 percent of twenty- to thirty-year-old males think about sex every fifty-two seconds".

Given that she places this statement among others that ARE cited, it should also be cited.