When Alex Jones' auction is on the top of HN, but his most famous claim is right there with it -- Atrazine in the water turning the frogs gay
If you block that process, you’d wind up with an XY female.
We're talking about a person with a uterus, vulva, vagina, etc. But without the widening of hips or development of breasts that happen in most women. No penis, no scrotum, no vas deferens, no testosterone. Nothing you would find in the majority of men.
The only thing they have are testes and the testes present in these individuals are basically inert. They're usually removed because they're more likely to develop testicular cancer.
With hormone therapy, they will develop the secondary sex characteristics of women.
But the overall point here is that atrazine would need to be administered in utero to have the effects claimed by Alex Jones. Frogs reproduce externally. They lay eggs that are then fertilized. These eggs can be contaminated with surface atrazine which would then affect their development as described earlier.
Note: the claim was “they’re turning the frogs gay!!” which is quite inaccurate in several aspects (who’s “they?”). The general thrust is correct, however.
Two can be true. Atrazine can be bad, and Alex Jones claims about it can be outrageous unfounded conspiracy theories.
Alex and the circa 2010 Occupy Wall Street crowd have a lot more in common with each other than the "other side", which would be the warmongering "Neocons". But this might be more than some will want to contend with cognitively. Easier to bamboozle someone than tell them they have been bamboozled, and all that.
It's in there, among all the other shouting.
Look up Lyndon LaRouche, or hell Mussolini & Hitler. They start from what seems like legitimate concerns and often from what seems like a pro working class agenda, but ultimately the purpose is more power to the Market and more power to people themselves or people like themselves, and usually there's this huge socially regressive aspect to it especially attacking minorities, huge amounts of anti-Semitism, yada yada yada
Hitler has a whole part of Mein Kampf where he talks about a communist trade union protest and how his explicit goal is to capture that same anti-establishment anger and form of organizing but direct it in the service of the Nation and the Leader. Hence keeping around the "socialist" symbolism in the NAZI name and symbolism long after they murdered any actual "socialists" in the party.
It makes frogs that would otherwise develop as male become female or intersex instead.
"The resulting larvae were all male when raised to metamorphosis and sampled (n = 100), confirming that atrazine-induced females were, in fact, chromosomal males. Furthermore, atrazine-induced females lacked the DM-W further confirming that these atrazine-induced females were indeed chromosomal males (Fig. 2). These ZZ females expressed gonadal aromatase, as did true ZW females (n = 4, from our stock colony), but ZZ males (n = 8, control or treated) did not"
The frogs ARE genetically male. They are female (or neither) as a result of development.
So, can we get started now blaming the farmers for wokeness?
Only humans can "self-identify". True whether you think this is good or bad.
Farmers are to blame for sex changes in frogs. There may be other effects, but we do not know. It may well be harmful to humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine#Mammals
Personally I also think something shown to have such effects on wildlife should be banned, and definitely should not be in our food. It is banned in some countries.
Other animals that observably have language and culture may have social identities that include how they feel about themselves as well. Perhaps.
But at any rate, I’m relatively sure frogs are not a part of that potential group lol.
Frogs are a bit smarter than I used to give them credit for, though.
I live on the edge of a jungle, and I’ve had to transport frogs out of my house. First 20 meters, came back. (The frog in question had an identifiable scar or deformity)
Then 100 meters.
Then 250 meters to a nearby stream…. Back in my sink within a week lol.
That's the key element to effective conspiracy theories. A thread of truth, exaggerated, twisted and manipulated for maximum virality. Debunkers are met with links like the one you provided, and that's typically enough to discourage further debate because the truth is boring and a lot of hard work. And who wants to spend time trying to debunk when the believers don't want the truth!
Which actually has the ultimate effect of blunting change rather than fostering it.