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Dev
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 Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: Males Are Disappearing From The Planet. Real Mad Science |
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Sperm counts are half of what they were during our parent's generation. Fewer boys are being born today. More boys are being born with reproduction issues.
What's causing this? It's chemicals. Check out The Disappearing Male from the CBC. You can watch it directly from the website. Interesting doc.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/ |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| No need to worry. In my classes there are always 3-4 more boys than girls. |
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Underwaterbob
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Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| It's all part of an elaborate female ploy to rid the world of us. Stealing our precious bodily fluids... |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you know that the Y-chromosome is gradually getting smaller? Some biologists have speculated that it will eventually disappear altogether. |
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Joe666
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Location: Jesus it's hot down here!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you know that the Y-chromosome is gradually getting smaller? Some biologists have speculated that it will eventually disappear altogether. |
It's worse than that. The thing is a turd. Only 25% of it genes are active. The other 75% has up to 10 exact copies of the same useless genes. It's 1/3 the size of the female X chromosome. It is disappearing. You are correct. Scientists' are already finding spcies of fish that were once sexual reproducing species and are now reproducing asexually, eliminating the need for male sperm.
One problem though. In humans, the male Y turd has the SRY gene. This is the sex determining region of said chromosome. With out this gene, the sex of human offspring can not exist, thus offspring would be imposssible. |
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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:12 am Post subject: Re: Males Are Disappearing From The Planet. Real Mad Science |
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| Dev wrote: |
| What's causing this? It's chemicals. |
Chemicals are the cause for a lot of things. Chemicals aren't necessarily bad. Water is a chemical. The air you breathe is chemicals. The food you eat is a whole bunch of chemicals. Everything is chemicals. You and I are chemicals... |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:06 am Post subject: Re: Males Are Disappearing From The Planet. Real Mad Science |
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| Dev wrote: |
| What's causing this? It's chemicals. |
Chemicals are the cause for a lot of things. Chemicals aren't necessarily bad. Water is a chemical. The air you breathe is chemicals. The food you eat is a whole bunch of chemicals. Everything is chemicals. You and I are chemicals... |
The chemicals between us... |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:11 am Post subject: Re: Males Are Disappearing From The Planet. Real Mad Science |
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| curiousaboutkorea wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
| What's causing this? It's chemicals. |
Chemicals are the cause for a lot of things. Chemicals aren't necessarily bad. Water is a chemical. The air you breathe is chemicals. The food you eat is a whole bunch of chemicals. Everything is chemicals. You and I are chemicals... |
It's chemicals from plastics. I'd try to avoid bottled water and other drinks in plastic bottles if I were you.
Jeez! I wanted to save some surprises for your viewing of the documentary, but you've put the heat on me so... |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:08 am Post subject: |
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I think this is only a problem in the first world.
Third world has no chemicals...and the fastest growing populations |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
I think this is only a problem in the first world.
Third world has no chemicals...and the fastest growing populations |
I completely disagree. Many places in the third world are becoming incredibly polluted. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| Konglishman wrote: |
| Julius wrote: |
I think this is only a problem in the first world.
Third world has no chemicals...and the fastest growing populations |
I completely disagree. Many places in the third world are becoming incredibly polluted. |
Yeah, China would obviously be one of them especially since they make so many plastic things. They also dispose of the west's obsolete computers, a process that is extremely polluting.
Maybe this person had the African countries in mind. |
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Carla
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| One reason for the low sperm counts is all the hormones in the water. Women take birth control, in the body and then out the body, water is recycled, the hormones stay in the water, men drink the water.... and bam, low sperm counts. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| Carla wrote: |
| One reason for the low sperm counts is all the hormones in the water. Women take birth control, in the body and then out the body, water is recycled, the hormones stay in the water, men drink the water.... and bam, low sperm counts. |
Hmmm? I'm not sure how closely related hormones and sperm count are. I'm not a biologist.
But the documentary says that the chemicals in plastic act as hormone disrupters in males actually blocking the development of the male sex organs internal and external.
But what you're saying makes sense to me because if men today have half the sperm count of our father's generation, well, when did women begin taking birth control pills en mass? In the early 70's. So, the timing supports what you say.
Thanks for your post. |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| Carla wrote: |
| One reason for the low sperm counts is all the hormones in the water. Women take birth control, in the body and then out the body, water is recycled, the hormones stay in the water, men drink the water.... and bam, low sperm counts. |
This really amused me, hahaha.
I guess we women then really have to accuse men who take viagra of giving our middle finger a boner very often.  |
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djsmnc
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Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| The future of humanity is robots anyway |
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