It's just a messaging problem! We just have to figure out how to make the public go along with what we already know is best for everyone, because we're so much more brilliant than everyone else. We just need more data to prove it! /s
The medical profession in general is among the most strictly controlled because they hold power over even the most powerful of political figures. By knowing their secrets and getting close enough to kill should they so desire it.
They know the truth, and they know they have bound themselves to lies.
Wish I could recall the band/song, but there was a great music video somewhat recently where a girl bribes, whores, sneaks and threatens her way into successively more extravagant parties, until the very last "party" ends up being a slum where a fortune teller reveals the truth to her and she falls into despair.
Women can get laid by attractive men with almost no effort at all, while even attractive men need to put in real effort to find good partners. It's not a double standard when you're quite literally comparing two entirely different situations.
I don't see the contradiction. You're just describing how each sex has adapted to the circumstances which I described.