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.