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The Disappearing Male
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/

"We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment in which our
children and our children's children are the experimental subjects."
Dr. Herbert Needleman

The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least
publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the
male reproductive system.

The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the
incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities,
low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer. Some
researchers say that declining male fertility rates could be the first
sign of extinction.
At the same time, boys are now far more at risk of suffering from
ADHD, autism, Tourette's syndrome, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia.

The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many
doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these
problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our
world.

Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products,
carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called "hormone
mimicking" or "endocrine disrupting" chemicals and they may be
starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human
development.

External Links
Environmental Toxins and Fertility
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
What Cautionary Tales Can Lake Apopka Tell?
Our Stolen Future
Defending Science.org
The Politics of Everyday Bisphenol A (BPA)
Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals
Environmental Toxins and Fertility