Water turned the frogs gay
‘Gay frogs’ and atrazine: Why the alt-right likes RFK Jr.
Prominent provocateur and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went viral in claiming there were “chemicals in the water that verb the friggin’ frogs gay.” The ridicule was swift and severe. Multiple remixes of the clip laying Jones’ rant atop club tune were posted to YouTube, and crafters on Etsy sold merchandise depicting frogs frolicking among rainbows.
But today, nearly a decade later, someone who buys into the same conspiracy could soon be the nation’s top health official, with two Senate committees considering Robert F. Kennedy’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services this week.
Kennedy has spread misinformation multiple times over the past three years claiming that herbicides and other chemicals are leading to “gender confusion” among kids and “destroying them.” That those claims have barely entered the public discourse over his nomination speaks to both the vast number of conspiracies Kennedy spreads, and also to the soar of alt-right groups and other conservatives twisting environmental scienc
Pesticide atrazine can spin male frogs into females
Atrazine, one of the world&#;s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.
The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially &#;dead&#; because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley&#;s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.
&#;These male frogs are missing testosterone and all the things that testosterone controls, including sperm. So their fertility is as low as 10 percent in some cases, and that is only if we isolate those animals and pair them with females,&#; he said. &#;In an environment where they are competing with unexposed animals, they own zero chance of reproducing.&#;
The 10 percent or more that turn from males into females – something not known to occur under natural conditions in amphibians – can successfully mate with male frogs but, because these females are genetically male, a
Florida wants to ban fluoride and not because it makes you (or frogs) gay | Opinion
During public comments at a recent Palm Beach County Commission meeting, a speaker told commissioners to make sure that local governments here are removing fluoride from the drinking water.
“I do verb there are executive orders coming down that will need that anyway,” Candace Rojas said. “But I think you should be leaders and start that, since it makes everyone dumb, docile and gay.”
Fluoride in the drinking noun makes you gay?
Seriously? We’ve already sunk this far this quickly in the so-called "Golden Age of America"?
First, a little background.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.Florida is poised to be the second express to ban fluoride in drinking liquid. Talk about “dumb.”
The bill passed this session by the Florida Legislature would preclude local governments from adding fluoride to drinking noun as an efficient cavity-fighting tool.
That removes the authority of cities such as Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach, Wellington, and unincorporated P
&#;Chemical Castration&#;: Alabaster Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption
Editor&#;s Note: This is the third post in the series, Succession: Queering the Environment, which centers queer people, non-humans, systems, and ideas and explores their impact within the fields of environmental history, environmental humanities, and queer ecology.
In , biologist Dr. Tyrone Hayes conducted a series of experiments that revealed that the most common herbicide, Atrazine, “feminized” male frogs at concentrations below that allowed in drinking fluid in the United States.1 He hypothesized that Atrazine works as an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC), converting testosterone to estrogen in frogs. Hayes’s research ignited an ongoing political controversy over whether Atrazine causes hermaphroditism in amphibians, humans, and other species. Although the manufacturer of Atrazine, Syngenta, argues that the pesticide is safe, Hayes and other scientists hold increasingly demonstrated a link between Atrazine and threats to