[ars_technician]

>1.)The fact the female founders are asking for this, tells you that they don't feel on par with the way things are being done today.

How many are asking for this? Where are your stats?

[kazagistar]

You appear to be requesting science in order to justify doing science. I am here to tell you that is silly.

[SamReidHughes]

And I'm here to tell you it's not silly, it's very appropriate to do cheap but possibly flawed research first, before diving into an expensive "science" experiment that would cost some multiple of 1/2 a year of many people's lives.