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Re:A Journey Through Infertility by dash2 on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:21AM (#47453086)
My AI says: "There is good evidence that some pollutants can impair human fecundity (the biological ability to conceive), but much weaker evidence that pollutants are the main cause of the big drop in population fertility rates seen across rich countries. At the population level, the largest established drivers are still things like later childbearing, education, contraception, urbanization, housing/cost pressures, and changing family preferences."

Have you got evidence that goes against this?

Re:A Journey Through Infertility by david-gpu on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:48AM (#47453274)
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:A Journey Through Infertility by gonzalohm on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:40AM (#47453226)
Why don't you just Google "fertility microplastic", read a bit and then decide for yourself
Re:A Journey Through Infertility by dash2 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:26AM (#47463976)
I don't know why you think that would be better than using AI? I asked a specific question and got a detailed answer which (e.g.) differentiated between biological fecundity and achieved fertility.
Re:A Journey Through Infertility by Natfan on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:36AM (#47453200)
does your language model cite sources, or generate them too?
Re:A Journey Through Infertility by dash2 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:25AM (#47463974)
Yes it does. I looked at several of the individual sources. If you want, I can post a link to the full response.