Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs. Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults. The present study demonstrates the reproductive consequences of atrazine exposure in adult amphibians. Previous studies showed that atrazine adversely affects amphibian larval development. Atrazine is also a potent endocrine disruptor that is active at low, ecologically relevant concentrations. “Atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water. I discovered this little ditty titled Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (noted conspiracy-theory mongers?), which the National Institutes of Health (also noted conspiracy-theory mongers?) republished online: Out of curiosity, I looked into the issue myself. In the canon of weaponized talking points, only his Sandy Hook false flag claims take the cake (because those open him up for vindictive lawsuits).īut the pesticides turning the frogs gay claim is oddly specific - one that warranted, in my estimation, a second glance. The gay frogs thing routinely tops the list of lazy “Alex-Jones-conspiracy-theory-roundup”-type articles when hacks have deadlines and need some fresh slop for their bovine readers. They pearl-clutched like only hen-pecking CNN anchors can, breathlessly accusing him of promoting homophobia, transphobia, etc. The corporate media had a predictable heyday mocking Jones for his admittedly flamboyant characterization of what Atrizine does to reproductive function. “I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me.” Stranger things have proved true - I am forever Nick Carraway, mild-mannered-descendent-of-Midwestern farmers-turned-Great-Gatsby-narrator, bearing witness to the wonders of the human condition with an open mind. The first time I heard Alex talk about it in 2013 or so, I never diligently looked into the data behind the gay frogs thing, and I rarely brought it up in casual conversation, then or now.īut neither did I dismiss it out of hand. (Alex Jones remixes are supremely entertaining.) The internet supplied a bunch of remixes to mock what, in the first impression, understandably seems like outlandish claims. The males, once exposed, begin to exhibit hermaphroditic behaviors. Hitler’s did the same thing when he got into the groove.Īlex explained further: the chemical to blame was Atrazine, a common herbicide that leeches into the water supply and then, presumably, into frogs which then become sexually dysfunctional. What hair he had left on his large head would puff up like a disturbed bird nest after each fist-fall and gently fall back into place. In 2015, he reported the corporate state was “putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay” in between bouts of orgasmic sweaty rage that climaxed in slamming his fists on his InfoWars studio desk. He was alluding to what he had claimed for years is the homosexualization of life on Earth via chemical castration by the shadowy powers that be. “In individuals, insanity is rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”Īlex Jones did a segment about the gay frogs again on his Austin, Texas-based InfoWars show in 2015, which I had by then listened to for half of a decade, and for which I had no regrets.
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