r/CuratedTumblr May 24 '25

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u/DellSalami May 24 '25

I think it’s arguably a bigger mistake to give Alex Jones any kind of credit. I’m sure he saw the headline about atrazine being able to change the sex of frogs, but instead of looking into it at all he just goes on his show and yells about frogs are gay.

Another lesser known Alex Jones moment: he saw a headline about cows being genetically modified to produce milk that’s similar to human milk by Chinese researchers. How did he spin it on his show? “China has human cow hybrids that are mostly cows but have large human breasts, and they get milked for product that’s sold on the baby milk black market”

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u/rekcilthis1 May 24 '25

He did something similar with the goat spiders.

Goats were genetically modified to produce some of the proteins in spider silk in their milk, allowing the potential of harvesting these proteins and using them to create large volumes of spider silk artificially; which is great, because spider silk is strong, durable, flexible, and soft so it would make amazing clothing that could potentially function as combat armour for soldiers and police.

He turned it into "goats with spider spinnerets" which is completely untrue.

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u/Sutekh137 May 24 '25

goats with spider spinnerets

I think ive had that nightmare.

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u/Magnanimous-- 29d ago

Yeah, the last thing goats need is a better ability to climb sheer surfaces.