“No, Pesticides Did Not Give Your Child A Tiny Penis – Or Autism,” By Hank Campbell.
In mainstream media, everywhere from Fox News to Time (and here on Science 2.0, though with a little more skepticism) a bizarre study is all the rage – pesticides and other environmental toxins will give your kid a malformed penis and cause autism. And state regulations…prevent it. This overturns all of epidemiology, right? Now something has to be done. Autism causes might be okay to debate in a reasoned fashion but the public will not stand for giving American men tiny penises. We’re already in a new Cold War with Russia and Russian men are supposedly huge. Read more.
Questionable Claims About Pesticides and Health
March 19, 2014
