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This was the subject of an article on Foxnews.com in their "Junk Science" section, yesterday or the day before. I'm not sure what the ultimate truth will be, but I am sure that this research must be replicated before I can even consider that it has any human consequences. Frogs have been having problems for years, and they aren't the usual model for human studies anyway -- mice are.
Skeptical Remo
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The Canadian Enviromental Agency also found that pills do this also. Because when we take pills we don't absorb all of it, and we pee out what little is left. The sciencist found anti-depressents and other stuff in the lakes and rivers. Now the scary thing is, this report mostly focused on birth-control pills. And it stated that they found male fish turnining into female fish. And of course the concern is if this stuff can make it back into our drinking water since this stuff isn't filtered out of the water.
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Fox news has a penchant for dismissing studies that show environmental damage done by industry. Are scientists sometimes wrong? Well, um, yup. Are some scientists intellectually corrupt? Well, um, yup.
This study on frogs hasn't been replicated. So? Every new experiment is a new experiment. Doesn't mean it's wrong. Should attempts be made to replicate this study? You bet your seventh frog leg. The fact is, there's a lot of evidence that industrial pollutants are causing genetic damage in humans and other animals. It's reckless to cavalierly dismiss such studies.
Frogs are not close relatives of humans, so the effect of a pollutant on frogs may not suggest a similar effect on humans. Nevertheless, further threats to frogs could be very serious indeed. What the Fox News article doesn't point out is that frogs are a very important part of ecosystems around the world and they are dying off at alarming rates. The resultant impact on the environment could be very serious. This is not a matter to be cavalierly dismissed.
While the experiment can't be firmly trusted until it is replicated, hopefully in some form more than once, I'd tend to be nervous. When it comes to science, The Proceedings of the National Accademy of Sciences is rather more reliable than the junk science town crier of Fox News.
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BTW, I don't have time to post this, but Johnny Man wrote an essay responding to the recent New Scientist article that circumcised men are "healthier" for women with regard to cervical cancer risk. It can be read here:
http://members.1stnetusa.com/nc4444/reply3.htm
Check it out when you get the chance.
Scott
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We will not need a men’s movement.
Our sperm count is already low,
Thanks to pollution and stress.
Will we all talk with high voices?
And grow breasts?
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Hmmmm...I wonder if the reason there are so many misandrous MALE judges on the bench handing down whacked out anti-male decisions is that a special "dirty tricks" commando team from the gender-femmunist camp stealthly puts this weed killer in these judge's drinking water and food?
Just a theory. Misandrous judicial weirdness by male judges can't be explained any other way.
Kind of like a plump chicken being for Col. Sanders.
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