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Posted on 05/17/2012 8:42:30 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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The silence amongst environmentalists is deafening.
Nowadays "eco-feminists" who won't use plastic baby bottles because of minute amounts of BPS's, see no problem with 100,000,000 cycles of birth control pills being flushed into the water systems every month. Now there's an endocrine disruptor they really like.
Is the massive increase in Autism, particularly in male children, be the result of hormonal pollution of our water by oral contraceptives?
It is amazing to me how much the Leftists will scream about the effects of CO2, a naturally accruing element expelled by all, yet, they balk at the idea that synthetic hormones used in order to allow people to engage in ‘consequence free’ sex may be adverse to the populatin in any way!
Sorry. I think that was supposed to be 10,000,000 cycles.
I wonder how many of them are the same people who go hysterical at hormones fed to cattle . . .
Another oddity -- I've read that municipal water supplies overall don't test for drug contamination, though some are starting to check for the common heart and cholesterold drugs.
Random thought -- would this have anything to do with the rise of the metrosexual? ;-)
—I first heard this hogwash about forty years ago—”—even the water in Leadville, Colorado,which comes from a lake at 10,000 feet is full of estrogen from the atmosphere”-—
LOLOLOL... my first thought too.
You can remove a lot of things from city water but pharmaceuticals ain’t one of them.
The EPA would be on this like white on rice except it cuts to the core of the libertine lifestyle of the unrestrained Sanda Flukes and Julias of the world.
We banned DDT for less.
Random thought — would this have anything to do with the rise of the metrosexual? ;-)
You are not the only one to question this. My son (now in his early 30s) grew up in Gainesville, FL, home of the Gators, and he maintains that is why he isn’t very macho. With 25-30,000 women on that campus, plus another 10,000 or so at the nearby community college, plus another 30-40,000 women living in the town, no doubt there was/is a lot of estrogen being peed into the water system. It has to have an impact logically. Move to the country and get a deep well.
Because there is always water in the lake? It never rains or snows or evaporates or otherwise replenishes from above?
What does a generation of young girls raised on birth control pills in puberty so they can be sexually active in school do to their fertility ability later in life?
Sure seem to be a lot of women needing assistance when they actually want to have a baby (and then some of them are having twins or triplets as a result of scientists mucking about). The world needs more Octomoms I guess.
I think people just assumed all medicine broke down into harmless basic components when flushed ;HOW this was supposed to occur never troubled anyone.
The supreme irony is we live in a world based on all kinds of scientific research and chemical use ,yet only a tiny percentage of people have any understanding of science.
I cannot convince my boss that putting a generator on the wheel of an all-electric car to charge the battery as it travels is NOT going to work.
Just wondering. I don't actually know.
Yikes...
True that some medicines probably do break down, but hormones are something different, I would think. The three-eyed fish that live downstream from the college campuses should be studied.
Your boss reminds me of Barney Rubble.
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