We live in a soup of chemicals, with unknown effects on us.
We know they having strange effects on animals. Only time will tell their effect on us. Scientists are doing only small-scale research on this.
xenoestrogens
Another FM smack-down: chemicals are not causing earlier puberty
Summary: Another day, another error uncovered.  To see others go to the reference page FM Smackdowns (corrections to and attacks on FM posts). While writing another post about chemicals affecting human’s sexuality — especially as a cause of earlier puberty — two articles torpedoed the theory (previous reports are here and here). (1) “Are children today really going through …
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A look back at our time from the 2100 A.D. edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
Summary: Today we have an exercise in future history (see Wikipedia), a look at my forecast of medium-term geopolitical trends. The most interesting predictions are at the end (starting with #4), our responses to the obvious trends. History moves in leaps. Punctuated equilibrium it’s called in evolutionary biology: a long period with relatively slow change, then …
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Xenoestrogens: a shockwave – a hidden danger
With all this talk about shockwaves, I wish to nominate one that has the worst combination of factors, making it deserving of more study than getting today. grossly understudied decent probability of occurance high impacts For a introduction to this subject see the Wikipedia page on Xenoestrogens. Note the references to many articles and books on the …