“endocrine disruptor.”
Do you even know what that phrase means?
“Endocrine disrupters” and “Endocrine modulators” are big buzz-words with the environmentalists.
There is no evidence that these “endocrine disruptors/modulators” have caused any effects in humans from environmental contamination, but there is plenty of evidence that fish have been harmed by some endocrine disruptors/modulators, in that their sexual characteristics have been damaged or altered.
Under normal conditions, this observation would normally beg the question: “What has harmed those fish?”
I say normal conditions, because environmentalists want to blame these changes on industrial pollutants which they have tagged with their now familiar tag “endocrine disruptors”, blaming it on DDT or PCB contamination.
The problem is that the issue is readily observable near water treatment plant outfalls, and guess what the problem is? It isn’t an industrial product, per se.
The villains are 17b-Estradiol and their analogues which are ingested/administered for both birth control and various hormone therapies for menopause) and excreted (as well as being flushed directly down the toilet when unused/outdated in pill form) along other types of human and animal estrogens both excreted naturally and administered to livestock.
But...hm. We don’t hear much about 17b-Estradiol. Wonder why? Could it be because it has something to do with one of the “Sacred Cow” pillars of liberalism, birth control?
And when we do hear about them, they compare studies using industrial pollutants artificially administered to animals at tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times the concentrations found even in polluted areas, and compare these to normally occurring levels of estrogen related contaminants.
The fact is that that substances like 17b-Estradiol are far, FAR more potent as endocrine modulators at the levels easily measurable in water sources than even areas with high levels of DDT and PCB types of pollutants.