Re:Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females – Live Science
by burfog on Monday January 20, 2020 @02:03AM
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Yes. He doesn't supply references for the crazy things he talks about, so digging up sources isn't easy, but he tends to be right.
It is interesting and scary to think about what pesticides and other weird new chemicals might be doing to non-frogs. Obviously bugs are in decline, which is kind of the point, but what about humans? Sperm count has greatly declined over the decades. Mental changes would be harder to measure, especially with the cultural feedback loop adding measurement noise, but we can be pretty sure that the changes are happening. I don't think we want such changes. Lots of us might not really be the people we were meant to be, having had our minds warped by contaminants.
Re:Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females – Live Science
by peglasaurus on Monday January 20, 2020 @02:49AM
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The problem with Jones is that he is like a Wheel of fortune. He mixes truth and half truth and everything else. Spin the wheel, reveal a truth, whether its true, nobody knows.
Then there's his previous(?) suboptimal opinion on Sandy Hook. That excessively muddied the water.
It worries me that most of tech was so quick to cancel his online presence. I prefer his type stays in the light rather than forcibly moved into the shadows. Real court jesters/tricksters exist to provoke the king using satire and humor and its a bad sign when they disappear into a dungeon, metaphorical or not. It would be interesting to see which "king" made the actual decision.
Re:Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females – Live Science
by pete762 on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:35AM
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Except he makes it sound as if the water was "poisoned" with the sole purpose of manipulating humans (and/or frogs), while it's "simply" an unfortunate side-effect of producing food large in quantities.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/alex-jones-gay-frogs-conspira...
It is interesting and scary to think about what pesticides and other weird new chemicals might be doing to non-frogs. Obviously bugs are in decline, which is kind of the point, but what about humans? Sperm count has greatly declined over the decades. Mental changes would be harder to measure, especially with the cultural feedback loop adding measurement noise, but we can be pretty sure that the changes are happening. I don't think we want such changes. Lots of us might not really be the people we were meant to be, having had our minds warped by contaminants.
Then there's his previous(?) suboptimal opinion on Sandy Hook. That excessively muddied the water.
It worries me that most of tech was so quick to cancel his online presence. I prefer his type stays in the light rather than forcibly moved into the shadows. Real court jesters/tricksters exist to provoke the king using satire and humor and its a bad sign when they disappear into a dungeon, metaphorical or not. It would be interesting to see which "king" made the actual decision.