The Pill as Pollutant (Pill-derived estrogen in water supply causing intersex)

National Review Online ^ | April 22, 2008 | Iain Murray

[Mrs. Don-o]

Freaky fish. And is that all?

Believe me, guys: you do not want eggs in your testicles.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Mrs. Don-o]

Freaky Ping.

[Para-Ord.45]

The Truths Shall Set You Free
By Iain Murray

YET LIBERALS DON’T always demand coercive regulations in the name of environmental protection, if it doesn’t suit them. For example, today, synthetic estrogen is adversely affecting river and lake fish populations.

Synthetic estrogen comes from birth control pills in vast amounts, yet is ignored by activists who instead call for controls on chemicals present in much smaller amounts that have much less effect. Why? One environmental activist called it a “personal freedom issue” — as if liberals never call for restrictions on those.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13089

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, many species of fish are hermaphroditic and always have been (anybody who's kept guppies, swordtails, or platys knows that).

I'd like to see the numbers on hermaphroditic bass and whether this has occurred historically.

I mean, we KNOW how honest the popular "science" is on global warming, and so forth.

[Smokin' Joe]

I grew up on a tidewater tributary to the Potomac before birth control pills came out, and you never heard of hermaphroditic fish there.

I do have to question one thing the writer said, that being whether they meant Striped Bass, or Largemouth Bass. Striped Bass were common in the lower reaches of the Potomac (tidewater--open to the ocean and brackish). Below D.C. (actually Great Falls) the Potomac is tidewater, above that point, fresh.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's a story that makes the MSM uncomfortable, I'd speculate, because it implies there's somehing actually wrong, pathological, about gender confusion, and that the solution might involve curbing hormonal contraceptives.

I've been reading about this for 15 years in the scientific press, but not til this year has it made it onto the media radar. If you google endocrine disruption estrogen fish amphibians, though, you'll get 55,200 results.

I think this is something more than genderqueer guppies.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“guys: you do not want eggs in your testicles.”

I thought scrambled eggs and bull balls were popular out West????

[stevio]

the environment is more a tool for advancing favored policies than a real cause in itself.

Nice to see in print what I've been telling people for a long time. We mess with God's creation and there is consequences.

[live+let_live]

“downstream from Washington, D.C., found large-mouth bass that in most respects were males, but who had eggs in their sexual organs.”

This explains a lot. We elect Republican but after they’ve been in Washington a while they all become pu**ies.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Question_Assumptions]

Nobody talks about this for the same reason why they don't talk about the health effects of birth control pills and why they complain about disposable diapers but not disposable feminine hygiene products, even though they are made of similar material.

[cosine]

People aren’t buying the global warming scare so another one is needed with the potential to scare people into delivering all power to the regulators. This is a perfect one as it involves a) sex, b) the evil pharmaceutical companies, and c) no data from the past to compare the present to.

A made for t.v.scare!

[B4Ranch]

Scrambled eggs and bull balls is a common result of rodeo riding.

[SoothingDave]

You think estrogen is a naturally occurring part of our ecosystem?

[nina0113]

...why they complain about disposable diapers but not disposable feminine hygiene products, even though they are made of similar material.

If you see someone cleaning out a non-disposable feminine hygiene product just one time, you won't care HOW full the landfill gets.

[nina0113]

You think estrogen is a naturally occurring part of our ecosystem?

Of course it is, but not in those concentrations.

[SoothingDave]

Yes, that was my point, thank you for stating it more better.

[Petronski]

...thank you for stating it more better.

I think you mean "more betterly."

;OP

[OB1kNOb]

Intersex.....is an unfortunate condition.....occurs when fish of one sex also exhibit sexual characteristics of the other sex.

Hmmmm.......