It’s been over eight years since Alex Jones had his infamous “gay frogs rant” live on air.

 A meme was born—and a very serious issue all but died. 

And that’s a real shame, because Alex Jones was right.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/01/alex-jones-was-right/

 

Now there’s a study that directly links exposure to endocrine disruptors to transgenderism. The study is published in the Journal of Xenobiotics, and it considers the effects of exposure to the chemical diethylstilbestrol (DES) on the rate of transgenderism among French boys. The study’s authors discovered that boys exposed to DES in utero were perhaps as much as 100 times more likely to become male-to-female transgender than the highest reported background rate across Europe. Reliable figures for the number of transgender people as a percentage of the population vary wildly, so the actual increase in risk due to exposure to DES could be even higher.

It’s estimated that between 1938 and 1971, four million pregnant women were given DES in the US alone. DES was also given to livestock to fatten them for market,

DES has now been widely linked to reproductive abnormalities in both sexes, ranging from epidydimal cysts, undescended testicles (cryptorchidism), and micropenises in boys to ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, premature births, and various forms of cancer in girls, including breast cancer and the rare cancers mentioned earlier. DES exposure is also linked to psychological disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolarism, eating disorders, and suicidal behavior. Exposure is believed to have multigenerational and transgenerational effects, meaning that the effects of exposure ramify down the generations even when only a single generation has been exposed. We’re now discovering that many harmful chemicals have these kinds of effects; the weedkiller glyphosate, for example, can cause the great-grandchildren of rats exposed to it to become obese.

The new French study looks at a cohort of 1200 mothers who were given DES while pregnant and their nearly 2000 offspring. Importantly, the study includes children these mothers gave birth to before they were exposed to DES. This allows the establishment of a comparable rate between sons born with and without exposure to the drug.

Nanoplastics transport to the remote, high-altitude Alps

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749121012793?via%3Dihub

Recent studies reported high amounts of microplastics in urban (e.g. London) and remote air (e.g. French Pyrenees, Arctic Fram Strait and protected areas of the USA), and the latter illustrates the important role of long-range transport of airborne microplastics (Allenet al., 2019; Wright et al., 2020; Evangeliouet al., 2020; Bergmannet al., 2019). It has also been shown that microplastics can be transported from air to sea, and very recently, a study showed emission from the sea surface back to air (Allenet al., 2020; Liuet al., 2019). These studies suggest that different environmental systems (sea, land and freshwaters) are interconnected and exchange large amounts of plastics via the air. Furthermore, it has been reported that plastic material exposed to the air fragments more quickly compared to, for example, plastics submerged in seawater (Napper and Thompson, 2019). Accordingly, we can expect a faster degradation of microplastics to nanoplastics in the air (or at the polymer surfaces exposed to the air), and the resulting loads of nanoplastics could be concerning.