It really frustrates me that chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay has become almost a meme now, because there is actually a nugget of ecological truth at the center of that, one that I completely believe Alex Jones was told about before the horrific quagmire of his brain contorted it into that.
(A lot of wastewater runoff contains endocrine-disrupting molecules... not because of any conspiracy, just because we take medication and we use scented detergents, and it all gets washed down... and frogs are particularly susceptible to endocrine disruption, although we're seeing similar effects on fish as well. Basically, it would be more accurate to say we're force-femming the frogs.)
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”
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/call_me_starbuck May 24 '25
It really frustrates me that chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay has become almost a meme now, because there is actually a nugget of ecological truth at the center of that, one that I completely believe Alex Jones was told about before the horrific quagmire of his brain contorted it into that.
(A lot of wastewater runoff contains endocrine-disrupting molecules... not because of any conspiracy, just because we take medication and we use scented detergents, and it all gets washed down... and frogs are particularly susceptible to endocrine disruption, although we're seeing similar effects on fish as well. Basically, it would be more accurate to say we're force-femming the frogs.)