Plastic toys affect boys' hormones: Study

HT.com ^ | Sydney, November 26, 2005 | HT.com

[R. Scott]

Bring back the old steel Tonka Toys trucks!

[AdmSmith]

paediatric endocrinologist Professor Niels Skakkebfk, of the Rigs hospitalet in Copenhagen, and team report their study of newborn exposure to phthalates

Try this instead: Niels Skakkebæk

http://abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_1515286.htm

æ is pronounced as "a" in "have", but that was just one letter improvement. f => æ ;-)

[HiTech RedNeck]

The phthalates aren't chemically bonded with the vinyl polymer. They are mixed with the polymer and soften it to make it useful for certain purposes, like a bar of soap softens by sitting in water. There's a big debate about how much harm, if any, the small amount of phthalates that gets out of these plastics can do.

[Jim Noble]

I always wanted the metal fire truck.

[cincinnati65]

I've always maintained that when the final research is in, scientists will source cancer back to either electricity or plastic, since the rise in cancer rates expanded rapidly with the widespread distribution of both of these.

Not that I'm some Al-Gore-back-to-the-15th-century-wacko-environmentalist type, but it does seem to me to be more than a curious coincidence.

[ovrtaxt]

DC has some of the gayest characters.

Marvel Rox!

[mikrofon]

Did someone say ... phthalate?