The right loves throwing around the word “insane” when they talk about the Left.

Uh-huh.

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    13 hours ago

    RFK is the person you warn your children about. KEEP YOUR KIDS AWAY FROM THIS CREEP!

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    It’s pedophile pseudo science so that they can justify raping little girls to “raise birth rates”.

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    RFK Jr is despicable, but Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from microplastics are ABSOLUTELY wreaking havoc on human reproductive physiology. The evidence is overwhelming and this TechDirt article is frankly embarrassing.

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      Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from microplastics are ABSOLUTELY wreaking havoc on human reproductive physiology

      oh, shut up.

      BPA was originally developed as one of a series of chemicals by researchers trying to develop synthetic estrogens in the 60s, but they dropped it because it did not have any actual activity in humans.

      Decades later, some truly shitty research at ONE lab in Missouri claimed hormonal effects in mice at levels simply not possible in humans. None of it was reproducible. Governments worldwide then wasted millions in over 800 studies that showed BPA was safe. Press ignored all these studies, because fear gets more clicks.

      Good summary article here:

      https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-news/majestically-scientific-study-casts-doubt-risks-associated-bisphenol

      “Fundamental, repetitive work on bisphenol A has sucked in hundreds of millions of dollars and it looks increasingly like an investment with nil return. All it has done is to show that there is a huge price to pay when initial studies are adhered to as being correct when the second phase of scientific peer review, namely, the inability of other laboratories to repeat the initial studies says otherwise.” He references a study in the journal Toxicological Sciences that showed complete absence of effect of a rage of bisphenol A exposures on reproductive development, function and behavior in female rats. The results of this study are robust and unequivocal and counter previous more circumspect studies that spawned the BPA fear. The press, however, didn’t pick up this story.

      Endocrine disruption is real, but it tracks with morbid obesity in teens.

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        15 hours ago

        Technically the proposed bans on food colorings are an attempt at reducing petrochemical consumption, as they are derived from fossil fuels

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      Great, then let’s see the evidence. Where are the peer-reviewed statistical studies that show a causal link? Where’s the lab work that shows part of a causal chain? Without those, it’s not science, it’s just more “many people believe” bullshit.

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        Part of the reason there’s not more evidence and it’s hard to prove a causal link is because it’s next to impossible to find enough participants for a control group because of how prevalent microplastics have become in our food and subsequently our bodies. You can’t exactly run peer review observational, experimental and double blind studies on only one half (more like one third, as a causal study would need to induce change from a->b) of the required test groups. t- and p-tests also are much less valuable if the sample size is too small.

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          You also can’t exactly get ethical approval to put microplastics into people for the purposes of scientific experimentation. Or at least, it would be very difficult. More so when current evidence shows that it does have actively harmful effects.

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    They’re grasping at straws to scapegoat assorted “woke” shit for low birth rates because it couldn’t possibly be late-stage capitalism causing people not to want to have kids.

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      Two things can be true at the same time. Late-stage capitalism is responsible for financially discouraging parents from having children, and fertility rates are declining due to a decline in reproductive health.

      Fertility rates are being affected by food additives and pollutants, and RFK Jr. Is a complete nutjob who pulls statistics out of his herniated ass.

      Don’t fall for the black and white rhetoric Republicans are trying to pull. They are trying to get leftists to say ‘these statistics are ridiculous and therefore microplastics and environmental damages by corporations are not a relevant issue.’

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        It looks like there’s a lot of causes, but yeah obesity is a big one for post pubescent pre geriatric gynecomastia. Apparently most boys get temporary gynecomastia mid puberty though.

        Like I’m all for trying to deal with the endocrine issues the youth are currently facing. It’s just that I get the strong feeling they’re going to be far more interested in things like banning birth control and estrogen replacement than things like estrogen destructive enzymes in wastewater treatment (which would also stop us from changing frogs’ sexes too much) or reducing dairy consumption. It’s clear Kennedy doesn’t care about science when it goes against his gut instinct.

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    15 hours ago

    RFKJ is a fucking crackpot and nothing he says should be taken as having any scientific basis.

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    17 hours ago

    What a great reminder that the current administration is full of pedophiles covering for other pedophiles.

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    16 hours ago

    Ok Bob, imma need you to successfully masturbate the time a day, for a month.

    If you can deliver you get to discuss this subject, otherwise stfu.