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And they said alex jones was crazy.`

by sudden 8y ago

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
I like that the thing people make fun of Alex Jones for the most is that "chemicals were turning the frogs gay!" ... and then that turned out to be effectively true. EDIT: Sorry if you don't like this, but it's true. This isn't a defense of Jones's tactics or character, just that people make fun of him for an outlandish claim he was more or less right about.
- cwkoss 8y ago
  The paper is interesting, though I think "turned the frogs gay" is probably less clear than "common pesticide causes male frogs to develop female morphology and reproductive function". https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/ Seems like atrazine should probably be taken off the market. Scary for both humans and animals that we are dumping so much endocrine disruptor into our water table. "[m]aternal exposure to atrazine in drinking water has been associated with low fetal weight and heart, urinary, and limb defects in humans". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine
- minkzilla 8y ago
  source ?
- bm1362 8y ago
  The context is important, Alex Jones was using that study to say that the government was turning people gay intentionally.
  - scottlocklin 8y ago
    Probably so, but nobody else with his reach was covering this. Seems kind of important to me!
    - ceejayoz 8y ago
      That's simply false. NYT in 2003: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/popular-pesticide-faulted-for-frogs-sexual-abnormalities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/popular-pesticide-faul... BBC in 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1930658.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1930658.stm
      - scottlocklin 8y ago
        Humor me for a minute here: 1) Google Atrazine (I get 1.7m hits) 2) Google "making frogs gay" (I get 4.9m hits) I'm pretty sure this means Alex Jones did a better job of informing humanity that atrazine might be a problem than the NYT or any other news organization. I'm assuming Alex Jones is the source, or at least the main popularizer of the meme "making frogs gay." I could be wrong about that, and maybe it was someone else! Or maybe everything Alex Jones does is bad. But it looks like he raised an important issue and effectively put it into people's brains.
        ceejayoz 8y ago
        That's a major goalpost move. Let's evaluate it for a moment, though. You posit Jones helped inform humanity about atrazine... but your tallies indicate that at least 3.2M of the 4.9M (65%) "making frogs gay" search results don't mention the chemical (as they'd show up in both queries if they did). edit: https://www.google.com/search?"making+frogs+gay"+atrazine https://www.google.com/search?"making+frogs+gay"+atrazine
        Nasrudith 8y ago
        Quality matters a lot in raising awareness of facts. You can't just say comicbooks are better at raising for showing everyone the dangers of radiation when basement levels of radon is depicted as causing people to melt into goo because lung cancer is also dangerous.
        scottlocklin 8y ago
        You have to communicate with Alex Jones fans somehow if you believe in Democracy. I mean, what are the other options? Not telling them anything? Sending them LaTeX formatted papers?
cwkoss 8y ago
Not mutually exclusive

And they said alex jones was crazy.`

by sudden 8y ago

And they said alex jones was crazy.`

I like that the thing people make fun of Alex Jones for the most is that "chemicals were turning the frogs gay!" ... and then that turned out to be effectively true. EDIT: Sorry if you don't like this, but it's true. This isn't a defense of Jones's tactics or character, just that people make fun of him for an outlandish claim he was more or less right about.

cwkoss 8y ago
The paper is interesting, though I think "turned the frogs gay" is probably less clear than "common pesticide causes male frogs to develop female morphology and reproductive function". https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/ Seems like atrazine should probably be taken off the market. Scary for both humans and animals that we are dumping so much endocrine disruptor into our water table. "[m]aternal exposure to atrazine in drinking water has been associated with low fetal weight and heart, urinary, and limb defects in humans". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine
minkzilla 8y ago
source ?
bm1362 8y ago
The context is important, Alex Jones was using that study to say that the government was turning people gay intentionally.
- scottlocklin 8y ago
  Probably so, but nobody else with his reach was covering this. Seems kind of important to me!
  - ceejayoz 8y ago
    That's simply false. NYT in 2003: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/popular-pesticide-faulted-for-frogs-sexual-abnormalities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/popular-pesticide-faul... BBC in 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1930658.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1930658.stm
    - scottlocklin 8y ago
      Humor me for a minute here: 1) Google Atrazine (I get 1.7m hits) 2) Google "making frogs gay" (I get 4.9m hits) I'm pretty sure this means Alex Jones did a better job of informing humanity that atrazine might be a problem than the NYT or any other news organization. I'm assuming Alex Jones is the source, or at least the main popularizer of the meme "making frogs gay." I could be wrong about that, and maybe it was someone else! Or maybe everything Alex Jones does is bad. But it looks like he raised an important issue and effectively put it into people's brains.
      - ceejayoz 8y ago
        That's a major goalpost move. Let's evaluate it for a moment, though. You posit Jones helped inform humanity about atrazine... but your tallies indicate that at least 3.2M of the 4.9M (65%) "making frogs gay" search results don't mention the chemical (as they'd show up in both queries if they did). edit: https://www.google.com/search?"making+frogs+gay"+atrazine https://www.google.com/search?"making+frogs+gay"+atrazine
      - Nasrudith 8y ago
        Quality matters a lot in raising awareness of facts. You can't just say comicbooks are better at raising for showing everyone the dangers of radiation when basement levels of radon is depicted as causing people to melt into goo because lung cancer is also dangerous.
        scottlocklin 8y ago
        You have to communicate with Alex Jones fans somehow if you believe in Democracy. I mean, what are the other options? Not telling them anything? Sending them LaTeX formatted papers?

cwkoss 8y ago

Not mutually exclusive