Fathers Who Smoke Pot Increase Child's Risk of SIDS

This report on Excite News opens up some interesting questions about the biological link between fathers and their offspring. According to the article, fathers who smoke pot create a greater risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) for their offspring than mothers. Not much more is known about this phenomenon right now, but it does further the scientific fact that a child is half his father and half his mother (with respect to genetic make-up)... not all his mother and only fertilized by father.By the way, folks, I'd also like to provide this link to an excellent scientific description of how a fetus develops into a male or female. One of the biggest fallacies among the general public these days is that a human fetus "starts out female" and that maleness is then forced upon that fetus by the Y chromosome and excretions of the developing testes. That's only partially true.



As you'll see from reading above, a fetus actually starts out sexually indifferent. It has the ducts to create either a female OR a male. Now, we HAVE proven that if deprived of the testis secretions, the fetus will naturally develop into a female, but that's a far cry from stating (as is the popular notion) that "we're all female in the beginning."



I love science. :)

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