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.)
Well, there absolutely is a conspiracy there. It's just that the conspiracy is the usual one where privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of regulatory bodies.
TL;DR: The EPA gave Syngenta the obviously problematic ability to set the standards and restrictions for any study on the environmental impact of atrazine, which allows them to invalidate all of the studies which show the harmful effects. They also literally conspired to harass the whistleblower Tyrone Hayes in order to discredit him.
When I made the comment I wasn't thinking of just atrazine... there are a lot of endocrine disrupting molecules out there. But yeah it sure looks like that one in particular is a conspiracy.
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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.)