Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from microplastics are ABSOLUTELY wreaking havoc on human reproductive physiology

oh, shut up.

BPA was originally developed as one of a series of chemicals by researchers trying to develop synthetic estrogens in the 60s, but they dropped it because it did not have any actual activity in humans.

Decades later, some truly shitty research at ONE lab in Missouri claimed hormonal effects in mice at levels simply not possible in humans. None of it was reproducible. Governments worldwide then wasted millions in over 800 studies that showed BPA was safe. Press ignored all these studies, because fear gets more clicks.

Good summary article here:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-news/majestically-scientific-study-casts-doubt-risks-associated-bisphenol

“Fundamental, repetitive work on bisphenol A has sucked in hundreds of millions of dollars and it looks increasingly like an investment with nil return. All it has done is to show that there is a huge price to pay when initial studies are adhered to as being correct when the second phase of scientific peer review, namely, the inability of other laboratories to repeat the initial studies says otherwise.” He references a study in the journal Toxicological Sciences that showed complete absence of effect of a rage of bisphenol A exposures on reproductive development, function and behavior in female rats. The results of this study are robust and unequivocal and counter previous more circumspect studies that spawned the BPA fear. The press, however, didn’t pick up this story.

Endocrine disruption is real, but it tracks with morbid obesity in teens.