(December 3, 2022 at 2:43 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(December 3, 2022 at 2:02 pm)Dio Wrote: Alex Jones' favourite conspiracy that atrazine makes frogs "gay", but the twist is UC Berekley confirmed it in 2010.
No it did not. It just says that it can change frog's gender. If it changes frogs' gender then it is not turning them gay. There is nothing unnatural about animals switching sex. Shrimps, clownfish, coral, and frogs all have the ability to do so. There is also no evidence to suggest that chemicals in the water can affect human sexuality or imply the US government is trying to make children gay with juice boxes, as Jones claims.
I used quotes intentionally. This wasn't merely just sex reversals that occurred naturally, there were cases of a single frog having 6 gonads and:
Quote:These abnormalities were never observed in control animals in the current experiments or in over 10,000 observations of control animals in our laboratory over the last 6 years.
Both that study and the Berekley study used a model organism. The EPA has had reports of hormonal problems due to atrazine:
Quote:Effects reported in adults (human and experimental animals) include shortening of estrous cycle length, attenuation of the LH (leutenizing hormone) surge, decreases in pituitary hormone levels, ovarian histopathology (changes in ovarian tissue), and liver effects including increased serum lipids and liver enzymes, and liver histopathology (2).
I limited my comments to frogs specifically, I cannot control Jones' comments.