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To: Scumbria who wrote (135117)	3/29/2001 6:42:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570890

Did you know that sperm counts in the US have dropped by 50% in the last 30 years? I've heard the claim but I've never seen any hard evidence for it. cato.org lifesciencenz.com ashtons.on.ca "That's bad news for activists, who have been winning international media attention on the theory that chemicals get into the human hormone stream where they cause endless havoc, including headline-grabbing phenomena such as male animals with unusual genital development. "Endocrine disruption is a big problem. In animal studies it's well known that you don't have the development of a penis, or you get something that's somewhere in between the penis and the clitoris in animals when they're exposed to pesticides." So said Kelly martin of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Chemical-caused endocrine disruption, for example, was supposed to be reducing male sperm counts. "Human male sperm counts had dropped by almost 50 per cent between 1938 and 1990," was a typical claim. But study after study failed to find a sperm count reduction. Activists are unphased by science, however. An Ottawa Citizen story by Donna Jacobs enthusiastically endorsed the idea that "in the end, there is no safe dose for chemicals "because they act at extremely, sometimes immeasurably, low levels." And that's the final logic of Junk science's open crusade for zero chemicals: The chemicals that are killing you cannot be seen or measure, but we must ban them anyway." nomorescares.com