Pollution causes homosexuality in birds, study finds

[Wicked Jester]

Interesting.....It appears we may be on the way to figuring out the gay problem.

FoxNews.com - Pollution Causes Homosexuality in Birds, Study Suggests

This is great!.....We just might be able to do away with gays in the future by cleaning up the environment. Seeing as though these birds weren't "born that way", our future generations may not have to put up with the freaky parades, incessent whining, and overall bitching about special rights and shit like that.

Study away scientists!......Nip the problem in the bud once and for all......It's the least you can do for our future generations.

 

[Ravi]

Interesting.....It appears we may be on the way to figuring out the gay problem.

FoxNews.com - Pollution Causes Homosexuality in Birds, Study Suggests

This is great!.....We just might be able to do away with gays in the future by cleaning up the environment. Seeing as though these birds weren't "born that way", our future generations may not have to put up with the freaky parades, incessent whining, and overall bitching about special rights and shit like that.

Study away scientists!......Nip the problem in the bud once and for all......It's the least you can do for our future generations.

Let us see if this holds for humans. Eat some mercury and report back to us about your experience.

 

[Truthmatters]

Gay people have been arround alot longer than polution

 

[Old Rocks]

Are you telling me that Sparta was heavily polluted?

 

[Wicked Jester]

Are you telling me that Sparta was heavily polluted?

Not sure.......I think we need to unleash the scientists to figure it out!

 

[akositesla]

Studies done on lower forms of animals may not be applicable to humans at all.

 

[waltky]

Chemical in disinfectants found to be polluting our fresh water lakes...

Antibacterial Products Pollute Freshwater Lakes
January 24, 2013 | So-called “antibacterial” products are everywhere today - in stores, homes and classrooms around the world - to reduce the spread of colds and other infections. But a new study conducted in the United States has found that a chemical that gives soaps and hand creams their anti-germ properties is polluting freshwater lakes.

The anti-bacterial agent triclosan was approved for use in the U.S. in 1964 and was added to consumer products in the 1970s. Today, the disinfectant is in everything from soaps to laundry detergent, according to William Arnold, a civil engineering professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul. “We are using a chemical to wash our hands, brush our teeth and the like that isn’t actually necessary for the function of these products, that’s now accumulating in the environment and having potential effects out there," said Arnold. Researchers pulled core samples from the bottom of eight Minnesota lakes, looking for evidence of triclosan in the sediment that had built up on the lakebeds. “And so what we found is the concentration of triclosan was zero before 1964, and that it had increased over time, largely during the 1980s, when antibacterial hand soap came to the market," he said.

As the use of antibacterial soaps became widespread, more and more triclosan was washed down the drain with waste water, so the most recent sediments show the highest levels of the chemical. Researchers say three chemical derivatives of triclosan are produced when the antibacterial agent is mixed with chlorine during the water purification process. And when triclosan and those derivatives are exposed to sunlight, they produce dioxin compounds. Arnold notes that dioxins harm the environment and get into the food chain, beginning with algae in lakes. “People often think of algae on the lake - that’s bad - but algae are a very important component in the food chain," said Arnold. "And so if you disrupt that, that’s problematic. Triclosan is also known to make its way into fish via bioaccumulation, and so we expect these other compounds would do the same thing.”

Arnold says triclosan and its associated chemicals can build up in the ocean, as well as in freshwater lakes. U.S. regulators have found no evidence that triclosan is any more effective than regular soap and water at killing germs, although as an ingredient in toothpaste it can reduce the risk of gum disease. The Canadian government, however, has started regulating the chemical. An article by the University of Minnesota’s William Arnold and colleagues on the discovery of the antibacterial agent triclosan in U.S. lakes is published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Antibacterial Products Pollute Freshwater Lakes

 

[newpolitics]

Interesting.....It appears we may be on the way to figuring out the gay problem.

FoxNews.com - Pollution Causes Homosexuality in Birds, Study Suggests

This is great!.....We just might be able to do away with gays in the future by cleaning up the environment. Seeing as though these birds weren't "born that way", our future generations may not have to put up with the freaky parades, incessent whining, and overall bitching about special rights and shit like that.

Study away scientists!......Nip the problem in the bud once and for all......It's the least you can do for our future generations.

You deserve nothing but cancer
You Nazi-loving fascist

 

[varelse]

Interesting.....It appears we may be on the way to figuring out the gay problem.

Congrats, admitting you have a problem is the first step

That explains the tights...

 

[Truthmatters]

Altered pairing behaviour and reproductive success in white ibises exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of methylmercury


then the right can stop saying its a choice huh?

 

[deltex1]

Roosters are hiding their chickens....

 

[Mad Scientist]

then the right can stop saying its a choice huh?

Righties never said that, Liberals do, all the time.

But see in a different thread, it was determined that the idea that food additives can have an effect on sexuality was a "conspiracy theory".

Are you agreeing with it now?

 

[Truthmatters]

lying about it doesnt make it true

 

[Truthmatters]

being gay has been arround since man began

 

[varelse]

being gay has been arround since man began

As have both charity and murder. What, exactly, is your point?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Gay people have been arround alot longer than polution

Pollution has been around since the first meteor strike on the planet. I am pretty sure there were no humans, gay or otherwise, alive back then.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Altered pairing behaviour and reproductive success in white ibises exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of methylmercury


then the right can stop saying its a choice huh?

As soon as you stop saying it is genetic.

 

[newpolitics]

Altered pairing behaviour and reproductive success in white ibises exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of methylmercury


then the right can stop saying its a choice huh?

As soon as you stop saying it is genetic.

Whether its genetic, epigenetic, hormonal during pregnancy or shortly after, it doesn't matter. By the time it expresses itself, it is entirely involuntary. This puts the non-calvinist christian in a logical bind, because it either (1) means god is infinitely evil for creating beings destined for eternal suffering, (2) or god doesn't exist. Both options being unacceptable to the Christian, he is forced to believe homosexuality is a choice to escape this cognitive quagmire, which makes him free to hate, judge, and try and control other people, all of which is behavior that runs contrary to their biblical doctrine, posing yet another contradiction. I find that when you start with one contradiction in an internally inconsistent deity, more crop up necessarily later down the causal chain. This alone is enough to prove the Christian god doesn't exist. No omni-benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent being would ever do this, by definition, so the christian god becomes an internally inconsistent being. It's no wonder Christians are so delusional about scientific realities. Grappling with the illogic of such a logically incoherent theology has have profound effects on the cognitive functioning of those holding it, and can be witnessed by those without this theology all over this board. No worries though. Religion will soon be a thing of the past and we will be free from the cognitive chains we have bound ourselves with for the last few thousand years.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Altered pairing behaviour and reproductive success in white ibises exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of methylmercury


then the right can stop saying its a choice huh?

As soon as you stop saying it is genetic.

Whether its genetic, epigenetic, hormonal during pregnancy or shortly after, it doesn't matter. By the time it expresses itself, it is entirely involuntary. This puts the non-calvinist christian in a logical bind, because it either (1) means god is infinitely evil for creating beings destined for eternal suffering, (2) or god doesn't exist. Both options being unacceptable to the Christian, he is forced to believe homosexuality is a choice to escape this cognitive quagmire, which makes him free to hate, judge, and try and control other people, all of which is behavior that runs contrary to their biblical doctrine, posing yet another contradiction. I find that when you start with one contradiction in an internally inconsistent deity, more crop up necessarily later down the causal chain. This alone is enough to prove the Christian god doesn't exist. No omni-benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent being would ever do this, by definition, so the christian god becomes an internally inconsistent being. It's no wonder Christians are so delusional about scientific realities. Grappling with the illogic of such a logically incoherent theology has have profound effects on the cognitive functioning of those holding it, and can be witnessed by those without this theology all over this board. No worries though. Religion will soon be a thing of the past and we will be free from the cognitive chains we have bound ourselves with for the last few thousand years.

I love it when people make assumptions.

I challenge you to find a single post I have ever made that says that any behavior between consenting adults should be illegal. After you try, and fail, I expect you to take your head out of your ass and apologize.

 

[newpolitics]

I never claimed you said anything about making homosexuality illegal you halfwit. If you actually paid attention, you would see that my post was addressed to all Christians, like you, who claim homosexuality is morally wrong because it says so in the bible.