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2007-04-10 Science & Technology

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-04-10 13:04|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Could estrogen and artificial hormones and such, introduced during pregnancy, be causing this?

Feel free to shoot me down on this one; my girlfriend's big on avoiding artificial junk in food, and she tells me horror stories about what such things do to the body, but I don't know how much of it is accurate and how much is hysteria, and I'm too lazy to do the research to find out . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2007-04-10 13:15|| 2007-04-10 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Tie this story to the one on Muslim rapes in Norway (and the lack of response to them) and one has the potential for an excellent research project. Examine Norse estrogen exposure relative to societies that actually oppose rape and see if there's a correlation.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-10 13:27|| 2007-04-10 13:27|| Front Page Top

#3 So how is this a bad thing?

Posted by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 2007-04-10 13:34|| 2007-04-10 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a joke in here somewhere about 'disappearing male' and jumping into really cold water, but I'll leave that for others to find.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-04-10 14:57|| 2007-04-10 14:57|| Front Page Top

#5 That's funny. My group of friends, 20 in all, that the females were pregnant and 19 of 'em were boys (including my own son). I blame something in the water....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-10 15:48|| 2007-04-10 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 A friend of mine had 3 daughters (2 different fathers) and 2 of those daughters have had 6 kids (one with same husband, one with different), 5 of whom were boys. (oldest kid is 9)

"We know that men who work with some solvents, metals and pesticides father fewer baby boys."

And what percentage of either US or Japanese men is that? I'm betting small. Yeesh.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-04-10 16:20|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-04-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 BS: the masculinity rate is someting who is very constant except that curiouly it is higher after wars. Maximum ever registered was 109 (109 boys for 100 giorls) and never went below 103.

Of course this assumes there is no selective abortion.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-10 16:30|| 2007-04-10 16:30|| Front Page Top

#8 My household contained three ovulating females for a number of years. They almost always were on the same cycle - might be off for a month or two if they'd been apart a while (e.g. college), but then, they'd snap back together. Made for some 'interesting' times for me.
Anyway, perhaps there's some similar phenomenon that drives whether males or females are conceived - if there's a critical mass of some male pheromone circulating then the male-making sperm get 'lazy' and the female-makers do the conceiving, or vise versa.
Curious that the modern Norwegian or 'metrosexual' population seems more than adequate hormonally to stifle the male-making sperm.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-10 19:23|| 2007-04-10 19:23|| Front Page Top

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