On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:13:32 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:
snip
Our chances of sorting out the facts at this point are pretty slim, beyond
the fact that the types of research conducted in the past relate to fairly
controlled use of hormones and to relatively insensitive measures of the
effects in humans.
snip
The same types of historical epidemiological/demographic studies
that first indicated a connection between lung cancer and
asbestos and tobacco can still [and should be] be run.

Of major concern is the proliferation of steroid/hormone *LIKE*
compounds in the environment produced in many chemical reactions,
for example in the production of plastics. Many of these have
never been tested or indeed even seen before in nature, and their
activity/actions are totally unknown.

One area of concern should be the continual fall in sperm count
from at least 1900 to present in all species checked, including
humans. There appears to be a plateau affect in that there is an
abrupt fall in fertility to near zero as the sperm count
decreases, and that the human sperm count is rapidly nearing this
point in many urban areas.

Another area of concern is the rapid rise in hermaphrodite fish
and reptiles in the watersheds and rivers downstream from large
urban areas, which frequently include other large urban areas.

There may well be a drastic drop in human caused global warming,
just not from what the "green community" had planned.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
============
Merchants have no country.
The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
U.S. president. Letter, 17 March 1814.