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So far I heard mention of unknown environmental contaminants as suspected causes for rising rates of: - obesity - cancer - depression, ADHD, autism, gender d

• lanstin 3y ago
  All worth exploring. You forgot low sperm production. We are surrounded by manufactured molecules that mimic hormones from our bodies, an experiment with not much of a control group, and an experiment where the naive materialist model would lead one to expect effects.
• stevenwoo 3y ago
  Asthma, IIRC there was also a study that showed just living adjacent to roads with high truck traffic caused sizable increases in percent of children who developed asthma compared to other local neighborhoods.
  • cubefox 3y ago
    In that case the environmental contaminant in question is much easier to figure out though. (Something in the air presumably and produced by cars.)
    • stevenwoo 3y ago
      Off the top of my head it was postulated to be diesel fumes, equivalent mixed use motor vehicle traffic was not enough.