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If this turned out to be true it would be pretty fucking huge and terrifying.

Sperm count has been declining for decades, and evidence suggests that the rate of decline is accelerating. Men today have 50% lower sperm count compared to 1970. In a way it'd be better if this link was true, because at least then we'd be on the right track to reversing the damage.

https://archive.ph/4MQSu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis

We’ll I mean maybe but we’ve still contaminated huge swaths of habitable land with these chemicals. So I guess you’re putting a positive spin on it but it’s still a catastrophic fuck up.

>Men today have 50% lower sperm count compared to 1970.

Sperm count/testosterone level is strongly correlated with body weight; if you account for how much fatter people are nowadays the reduction is much less (e.g. compare a healthy weight person from 1970 to now). Similarly a lot of the reduction in fertility is explained by people nowadays being fatter.

Just to be explicitly clear in case anyone has heard differently, obesity is unhealthy.

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