The far-left uses the Ministry of Health to promote an anti-scientific ideology

The rise of the extreme left to power in Spain under Pedro Sánchez is giving rise to purely grotesque episodes.

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A Ministry of Health that denies genetic differences between sexes

Yesterday, the Ministry of Health, in the hands of Mónica García -from the communist coalition Sumar headed by Yolanda Díaz-, published a scandalous message on its official Twitter channel that has received a lot of criticism. The message states the following: "Men live less, commit suicide more and consume more drugs. It's not genetics: it's a masculinity that pushes people to take risks and ridicules vulnerability."

It links to an article that does not cite a single scientific study to support it

The message links to an article in a far-left media outlet signed by the Secretary of State for Health, who is also a member of the aforementioned coalition. The article in question does not cite a single scientific study: it is an ideological pamphlet, but it does treat its ideological theses as something indisputable and that makes a "denialist" anyone who dares to contradict its author, who says things like this:

"Masculinity does not have to be a determinant of illness, and this is something that must be highlighted. There is nothing genetic or pre-political in the fact that men die earlier, die more violently (at the hands of other men, generally) or adopt behaviors that are more harmful to our health."

Promoting an anti-scientific ideology from the Ministry of Health

What the Ministry of Health has spread with this message is not science: it is ideology. Gender ideology, to be more precise, a compendium of ideological theses promoted by the extreme left for decades. One of the theses of this ideology is that the differences between the sexes have no biological basis, but are the fruit of a social construction. Basically, gender ideology intended to do with sexual differences the same as Marxism with social classes: simply suppress them.

However much the extreme left tries to present it as an absolute and unquestionable truth, gender ideology lacks a scientific basis and some of its theses are radically anti-scientific, since they contradict facts demonstrated by science, such as the prevalence of certain diseases among men for biological reasons, and not only for exclusively social and cultural reasons.

The prevalence of certain diseases based on sex

It is worth remembering that prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer among men in Spain (23% of cases, according to official data from the Ministry of Health for 2023), and it is a disease exclusive to men, like prostatitis and orchitis. On the other hand, we must bear in mind that men take on jobs that require more physical strength and a greater risk of death, and this is not only for social and cultural reasons, but also biological ones, since on average, men are larger, have more muscle mass and more strength than women.

According to the aforementioned official data from the Ministry of Health, in 2023, 149,509 new cases of cancer were detected among men and 110,946 among women. There are differences between the two sexes. For example, lung cancer affects 14% of these male patients and only 7% of these women with cancer. Colorectal cancer also has a higher incidence among men (17%) than among women (14%).

These official data also indicate that overweight is greater among men (61%) than among women (46%), a problem in which eating habits and social customs have a notable influence, but in which genetic differences between men and women also influence. This excess weight increases the risk of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer and other cardiovascular diseases. In 2019, a study by the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, reviewing around fifty epidemiological studies on the prevalence of excess weight, predicted that by 2030, 80% of men and 55% of women will be overweight or obese. One of the authors of the study noted:

"In men, excess weight is more common up to the age of 50. Then, after the age of 50, obesity increases more among women. These are intrinsic issues related to hormonal metabolism. After a certain age, women find it more difficult to control their weight."

A left that replaces science with its magical thinking

It is astonishing that in Spain we have a Ministry of Health that spreads anti-scientific theories on its Twitter channel, presenting them as unquestionable facts and calling those who contradict them "denialists", and without providing a single scientific study to support its claims. For something like what happened yesterday there should be immediate resignations, but in Spain this will not happen because we have a left that seems bent on replacing science with its particular magical thinking.

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Photo: La Moncloa.