Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s Japan http://tsigeto.info/18kTANAKA Sigeto (Tohoku University) 2018-08-27Funding: Jap…
Japan has experienced floods of fake knowledge about human reproduction in recent times. Most of them are created by professionals in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine and spread widely through a mass media ca…
The egg aging campaign in Japan was triggered by the results from the cross-national survey, the International Fertility Decision-Making Study (IFDMS), conducted in 2009-2010 by a Cardiff University research group supported by the global p…
Figure 2 shows a graph of a woman's age and number of eggs in her body. It was included in a booklet to teach the general audience medical knowledge about human bodies, focusing on sex differences regarding reproduction [16], retrieved fro…
The egg aging campaign has also featured graphs that gave a direct impression of the declining fertility with the advancing age of a woman.Figure 6 shows a falsified graph that was used in a petition by nine academic associations, includin…
Figure 8 is adapted from images on the Web. It looks as if a woman's “likelihood of getting pregnant” linearly decreases along with her advancing of age. The downward curve is always used in combination with an upward curve for the “likeli…
In 2013, the JSRM launched an official “Q&A” website about infertility issues designed for a general audience [22], which we have already mentioned in p. 5. Figure 9 shows a graph published in the website to answer the questions on how wom…
Dunson et al. [48] reported the estimated probability of conception for each day of the month for women classified by age (19-26, 27-34, and 35-39 years). Their estimation is characterized by sharp peaks at 2 days prior to ovulation (index…
Here is a summary of the history of the egg aging campaign and related discourses. 1974 “卵子の老化” (egg aging) was mentioned in a discussion at a symposium [3] by the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences (JAMS) (in Aug.). 1979 Dr. Su…
For the governmental pronatalist policy in the 2010s, “life planning” has been a key phrase. Various kinds of activities have been conducted to encourage youths to make a life plan regarding marriage, children, and other family issues. Lec…
Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s JapanTANAKA Sigeto (Tohoku University) 2018-08-27All texts: https://remcat.hatenadiar…