Frogs gay

Most notably, American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cited research on the effects of atrazine on frogs, which can induce spontaneous sex change or hermaphroditism, to claim that the U.S. government was "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay" as part of a "chemical warfare operation" to increase homosexuality and. The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, screws up the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by UC Berkeley's Tyrone Hayes.

One of the mostly widely used weed killers, atrazine, may be disrupting male frogs' sexual development--even reversing it. “They’re turning the frogs gay.” If you have ever watched a video by the internet’s premier conspiracy theorist, Infowars ’ Alex Jones, you will know that this is an undeniable fact.

Chemicals in the water are turning the (frigging) frogs gay. The blatant absurdity of this conspiracy theory makes it one of the most widely mocked and memed of Jones’ outbursts (though one study. Abstract The gay frog has taken on a surprisingly prominent role in contemporary environmental culture. Primarily associated with American shock jock Alex Jones and the so-called alt-right, fears of frogs being turned gay by hormones in water have nevertheless entered the mainstream, while gay frog memes are shared online by users from across the political spectrum.

This article offers a. Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females.

Atrazine effects on frogs

The following two tabs change content below. She is a senior fellow with the climate justice organization, Our Climate Voices, where she helps amplify the stories of those most affected by climate change. Hayes doubts that atrazine has such severe effects on humans, because the herbicide does not accumulate in tissue and humans don't spend their lives in water like frogs do. Several states are considering banning atrazine, and six class action lawsuits have been filed seeking to eliminate its use.

Though previous studies showed deformities and abnormalities in adult amphibians only at very high doses, no one had looked in detail at hormone levels in frogs or at effects on tadpoles, the larval stage of frogs. By Robert Sanders, Media Relations. Abnormal gonads in a male Xenopus frog, the result of exposure to the herbicide atrazine.

The best response to this is a strong politics nationalism. They turned up many native leopard frogs Rana pipiens with similar problems, and are now testing captured animals to determine whether these changes are due to atrazine. John P. Some studies in cell culture point to a possible biochemical explanation for the observed effects on amphibian sex organs.

In laboratory experiments at various concentrations of atrazine, using two separate populations of frogs raised in three separate tanks - experiments replicated 51 times - they found atrazine to affect the sexual development of frogs at concentrations of 0. Scholars in queer ecologies, a subfield that explores the intersection of queer theory and environmental studies, have probed how representations of endocrine disruption in popular culture are imbued with normative judgments about the desirability of human sexual variability.

By Robert Sanders. Working with the African clawed frog, Hayes and his colleagues showed in that tadpoles raised in atrazine-contaminated water become hermaphrodites — they develop both female ovaries and male testes gonads. Nevertheless, the effects of atrazine on frogs could be a sign that the herbicide is subtly affecting human sex hormones, too, interfering with androgens, such as testosterone, that control male sex characteristics.

Hayes, associate professor of integrative biology, and his colleagues report that atrazine at levels often found in the environment demasculinizes tadpoles and turns them into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female sexual characteristics. Those early studies were hampered by the inability to easily distinguish genetically male from genetically female frogs.

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As a result of these studies, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA is reviewing its regulations on use of the pesticide. Fertility rates in people, in the US for example are dropping too. The frog has become a hermaphrodite, that is, it has both male testes and female ovaries sex organs. High-resolution image available for download.

Prodded by the EPA, Syngenta approached Hayes, an expert on amphibian hormones, to find out if atrazine disrupts sex hormones in amphibians. Recent studies also found a possible link between human birth defects and low birth weight and atrazine exposure in the womb. One of the most popular personalities promoting these views goes by the pseudonym Raw Egg Nationalist online, though in summer he was outed by a United Kingdom nonprofit as an Oxford and Cambridge-educated historian named Charles Cornish-Dale.

Sexually mature males showed a fold decrease in testosterone levels, bringing them below levels found in normal females. Cornish-Dale was also heavily featured in the show using his anonymous pseudonym, Raw Egg Nationalist.