The oncologist Drauzio Varella is often said to have a quote about silicone breasts and erection aids. But that wasn't his idea at all!
It's definitely funny, it also makes you think, and the quote about old people with large busts and permanent erections is suitable for social media anyway. But the following words, which are said to come from “Nobel Prize winner Drauzio Varella”, are nothing but a legend:
In today's world, five times more is invested in drugs for male potency and silicone for women than in curing Alzheimer's patients. As a result, in a few years we'll have old women with big tits and old men with hard penises, but none of them can remember what that's for.
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These words are said of the Brazilian oncologist Drauzio Varella. To increase the weight of the sentences even more, it is often said that he is a Nobel Prize winner for medicine:

The fact check: No Nobel Prize winner
Varella has won prizes, but never the Nobel Prize in Medicine. A comparison with the names from the official list of Nobel Prize winners for physics and medicine shows that the name Drauzio Varella is not listed there.
It's even thicker when you look for the quote, because he never said it. This is quite clear from a Brazilian newspaper report in which he had his say:
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After several months, Varella concedes to enter the Spanish radio. O locutor o presentedou recitando a seguinte phrase, atribuída ao médico: “No mundo atual está se investindo cinco vezes mais em remédios para virilidade masculina e silicone para mulheres do que na cure do mal de Alzheimer. Daqui a alguns anos teremos velhas de seios grandes velhos de pinto duro, mas que não se lembrarão para que servem.”
Varella teve que esclarecer no ar que não é o autor. “Não tenho a menor idea de quanto se investe na cura do Alzheimer. E jamais falaria uma grosseria dessas. Nem no botequim.”
[About three months ago, Varella gave an interview to a radio station in Spain. The speaker introduced him with the following sentence, attributed to the doctor: “In today's world, five times more is invested in drugs for male potency and silicone for women than in curing Alzheimer's disease. In a few years we’ll have old boobs, big boobs and old hard cocks, but they won’t remember what they’re for.”
Varella had to clarify on the radio show that he was not the author of the words. “I have no idea how much money is being invested in curing Alzheimer's disease. And I would never speak of such rudeness. Not even in the bar.”]
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