It's official: Men really are the weaker sex ... Gender Bending Chemicals Destroying Their Potency
Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html
It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
Evolution is being distorted by pollution, which damages genitals and
the ability to father offspring, says new study. Geoffrey Lean reports
Sunday, 7 December 2008
The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both
humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the
world reveals.
The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive
report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is
feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to
mammals, including people.
Backed by some of the world's leading scientists, who say that it
"waves a red flag" for humanity and shows that evolution itself is
being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time
for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed
new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to
have "gender-bending" effects.
It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows
that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in
pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.
"This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat,"
says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects
of chemicals, who wrote the report.
Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new
chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has admitted
that 99 per cent of them are not adequately regulated. There is not
even proper safety information on 85 per cent of them.
Many have been identified as "endocrine disrupters" – or
gender-benders – because they interfere with hormones. These include
phthalates, used in food wrapping, cosmetics and baby powders among
other applications; flame retardants in furniture and electrical
goods; PCBs, a now banned group of substances still widespread in food
and the environment; and many pesticides.
The report – published by the charity CHEMTrust and drawing on more
than 250 scientific studies from around the world – concentrates
mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in species ranging from the
polar bears of the Arctic to the eland of the South African plains,
and from whales in the depths of the oceans to high-flying falcons and
eagles.
It concludes: "Males of species from each of the main classes of
vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds
and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.
"Feminisation of the males of numerous vertebrate species is now a
widespread occurrence. All vertebrates have similar sex hormone
receptors, which have been conserved in evolution. Therefore,
observations in one species may serve to highlight pollution issues of
concern for other vertebrates, including humans."
Fish, it says, are particularly affected by pollutants as they are
immersed in them when they swim in contaminated water, taking them in
not just in their food but through their gills and skin. They were
among the first to show widespread gender-bending effects.
Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be
developing eggs in their testes; in some stretches all male roaches
have been found to be changing sex in this way. Female hormones –
largely from the contraceptive pills which pass unaltered through
sewage treatment – are partly responsible, while more than
three-quarters of sewage works have been found also to be discharging
demasculinising man-made chemicals. Feminising effects have now been
discovered in a host of freshwater fish species as far away as Japan
and Benin, in Africa, and in sea fish in the North Sea, the
Mediterranean, Osaka Bay in Japan and Puget Sound on the US west
coast.
Research at the University of Florida earlier this year found that 40
per cent of the male cane toads – a species so indestructible that it
has become a plague in Australia – had become hermaphrodites in a
heavily farmed part of the state, with another 20 per cent undergoing
lesser feminisation. A similar link between farming and sex changes in
northern leopard frogs has been revealed by Canadian research, adding
to suspicions that pesticides may be to blame.
Male alligators exposed to pesticides in Florida have suffered from
lower testosterone and higher oestrogen levels, abnormal testes,
smaller penises and reproductive failures. Male snapping turtles have
been found with female characteristics in the same state and around
the Great Lakes, where wildlife has been found to be contaminated with
more than 400 different chemicals. Male herring gulls and peregrine
falcons have produced the female protein used to make egg yolks, while
bald eagles have had difficulty reproducing in areas highly
contaminated with chemicals.
Scientists at Cardiff University have found that the brains of male
starlings who ate worms contaminated by female hormones at a sewage
works in south-west England were subtly changed so that they sang at
greater length and with increased virtuosity.
Even more ominously for humanity, mammals have also been found to be
widely affected.
Two-thirds of male Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska have been found
to have undescended testes and deformed antler growth, and roughly the
same proportion of white-tailed deer in Montana were discovered to
have genital abnormalities.
In South Africa, eland have been revealed to have damaged testicles
while being contaminated by high levels of gender-bender chemicals,
and striped mice from one polluted nature reserved were discovered to
be producing no sperm at all.
At the other end of the world, hermaphrodite polar bears – with
penises and vaginas – have been discovered and gender-benders have
been found to reduce sperm counts and penis lengths in those that
remained male. Many of the small, endangered populations of Florida
panthers have been found to have abnormal sperm.
Other research has revealed otters from polluted areas with smaller
testicles and mink exposed to PCBs with shorter penises. Beluga whales
in Canada's St Lawrence estuary and killer whales off its north-west
coast – two of the wildlife populations most contaminated by PCBs –
are reproducing poorly, as are exposed porpoises, seals and dolphins.
Scientists warned yesterday that the mass of evidence added up to a
grave warning for both wildlife and humans. Professor Charles Tyler,
an expert on endocrine disrupters at the University of Exeter, says
that the evidence in the report "set off alarm bells". Whole wildlife
populations could be at risk, he said, because their gene pool would
be reduced, making them less able to withstand disease and putting
them at risk from hazards such as global warming.
Dr Pete Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, one
of the world's foremost authorities on gender-bender chemicals, added:
"We have thrown 100, 000 chemicals against a finely balanced hormone
system, so it's not surprising that we are seeing some serious
results. It is leading to the most rapid pace of evolution in the
history of the world.
Professor Lou Gillette of Florida University, one of the most
respected academics in the field, warned that the report waved "a
large red flag" at humanity. He said: "If we are seeing problems in
wildlife, we can be concerned that something similar is happening to a
proportion of human males"
Indeed, new research at the University of Rochester in New York state
shows that boys born to mothers with raised levels of phthalates were
more likely to have smaller penises and undescended testicles. They
also had a shorter distance between their anus and genitalia, a
classic sign of feminisation. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus
University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs
grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with
traditionally male toys.
Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia and
Italy have given birth to twice as many girls than boys, which may
offer a clue to the reason for a mysterious shift in sex ratios
worldwide. Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls, but the
ratio is slipping. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have
been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone.
And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20
countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per
millilitre of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years. (Hamsters
produce nearly three times as much, at 160 million.) Professor Nil
Basu of Michigan University says that this adds up to "pretty
compelling evidence for effects in humans".
But Britain has long sought to water down EU attempts to control
gender-bender chemicals and has been leading opposition to a new
regulation that would ban pesticides shown to have
endocrine-disrupting effects. Almost all the other European countries
back it, but ministers – backed by their counterparts from Ireland and
Romania – are intent on continuing their resistance at a crucial
meeting on Wednesday. They say the regulation would cause a collapse
of agriculture in the UK, but environmentalists retort that this is
nonsense because the regulation has get-out clauses that could be used
by British farmers.
Perplexed
> News from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
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I had heard this. And who among us doesn't know a woman who couldn't
get pregnant and then found out it was b/c her husband had low sperm
count? It happened to two friends of mine; one ultimately got
pregnant with treatment and the other adopted.
Interesting article.
trigonometry1972@gmail.com |
are affected by these poisons.
PCBs are a cause diseases of the female
reproductive organs as well.
Toxic chemicals are used to package our food
and to contain our goods for storage. The
off-gas and sublimate into our homes. They are
not all pesticides. It would be nice
to be able to use orange or lemon zest and not
get a dose of gender bending
antifungal/antimold chemicals.
Trig
trigonometry1972@gmail.com |
> your face. It's not as if anyone didn't warn people about this earlier.
>
> Now you know why aliens have been abducting you regularly and probing
> your assholes, assholes. You can't do this kind of shit on a planet and
> not expect the bosses to get upset about it, and do something about it.
>
> You be fucked, and at so many different levels!
If you live on the planet or even visit and then eat the food or
breath
you get some exposure. On the bright side, it does get
the boys in congress and in the white house as well.
Ilena Rose
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html
Happy Oyster
>It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
So what!?
Do some zerobrainers want to make a gender war?
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George Conklin
"Ilena Rose" <B...@mundo.com> wrote in message
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> News from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
> http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>
>
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html
>
> It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
>
> Evolution is being distorted by pollution, which damages genitals and
> the ability to father offspring, says new study. Geoffrey Lean reports
>
> Sunday, 7 December 2008
>
> The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both
> humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the
> world reveals.
>
> report yet published - shows that a host of common chemicals is
> feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to
> mammals, including people.
>
> Backed by some of the world's leading scientists, who say that it
> "waves a red flag" for humanity and shows that evolution itself is
> being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time
> for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed
> new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to
> have "gender-bending" effects.
>
> It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows
> that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in
> pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.
>
> "This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat,"
> says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects
> of chemicals, who wrote the report.
>
> Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new
> chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has admitted
> that 99 per cent of them are not adequately regulated. There is not
> even proper safety information on 85 per cent of them.
>
> gender-benders - because they interfere with hormones. These include
> phthalates, used in food wrapping, cosmetics and baby powders among
> other applications; flame retardants in furniture and electrical
> goods; PCBs, a now banned group of substances still widespread in food
> and the environment; and many pesticides.
>
> than 250 scientific studies from around the world - concentrates
> mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in species ranging from the
> polar bears of the Arctic to the eland of the South African plains,
> and from whales in the depths of the oceans to high-flying falcons and
> eagles.
>
> It concludes: "Males of species from each of the main classes of
> vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds
> and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.
>
> "Feminisation of the males of numerous vertebrate species is now a
> widespread occurrence. All vertebrates have similar sex hormone
> receptors, which have been conserved in evolution. Therefore,
> observations in one species may serve to highlight pollution issues of
> concern for other vertebrates, including humans."
>
> Fish, it says, are particularly affected by pollutants as they are
> immersed in them when they swim in contaminated water, taking them in
> not just in their food but through their gills and skin. They were
> among the first to show widespread gender-bending effects.
>
> Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be
> developing eggs in their testes; in some stretches all male roaches
> largely from the contraceptive pills which pass unaltered through
> three-quarters of sewage works have been found also to be discharging
> demasculinising man-made chemicals. Feminising effects have now been
> discovered in a host of freshwater fish species as far away as Japan
> and Benin, in Africa, and in sea fish in the North Sea, the
> Mediterranean, Osaka Bay in Japan and Puget Sound on the US west
> coast.
>
> Research at the University of Florida earlier this year found that 40
> has become a plague in Australia - had become hermaphrodites in a
> penises and vaginas - have been discovered and gender-benders have
> been found to reduce sperm counts and penis lengths in those that
> remained male. Many of the small, endangered populations of Florida
> panthers have been found to have abnormal sperm.
>
> Other research has revealed otters from polluted areas with smaller
> testicles and mink exposed to PCBs with shorter penises. Beluga whales
> in Canada's St Lawrence estuary and killer whales off its north-west
> Romania - are intent on continuing their resistance at a crucial
> meeting on Wednesday. They say the regulation would cause a collapse
> of agriculture in the UK, but environmentalists retort that this is
> nonsense because the regulation has get-out clauses that could be used
> by British farmers.
Well, in about 70 nations populations are not reproducing
themselves......
Happy Oyster
>On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:50:52 -0400, in misc.health.alternative,
>"George Conklin" <n...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>"Ilena Rose" <B...@mundo.com> wrote in message
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>>> News from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
>>> http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html
>>>
>>> It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
>>>
>>>
><snip>
>>> nonsense because the regulation has get-out clauses that could be used
>>> by British farmers.
>>
>> Well, in about 70 nations populations are not reproducing
>>themselves......
>>
>
>Conkhead, that makes no sense. I do not think anyone is "reproducing
>themselves". Isn't that called cloning?
No. It is called irony. ;O)
Peter B.
> http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html
>
> It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
>
Just the queers, baby, just the queers.