Trying to fact-check Natural News is like attempting to find the source image for a wildly pixellated blur of colourspic.twitter.com/aVYBDkRGUR
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This particular article started its life as a paper on environmental pollutants and how they can have an impact on wild fish and their fertilitypic.twitter.com/8kvsHwAtWc
Basically, the study found that exposure to BPA and EE2, used in various plastics and hormonal contraception, respectively, caused subsequent generations of fish to be a bit less fertile You can read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep09303#f2 …
Now you'll note that this doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with humans, because this study didn't look at that at all Which is where it gets fun
Natural News links to the National Catholic Register, which is either a Catholic blogging site or the oldest Catholic newspaper in the US, depending on which of their self-descriptions you readpic.twitter.com/czRBRC4neQ
The NCR article takes a fairly hard stance on birth control, calling it "Intrinsically evil", which gives you an idea of what the general trend of the piece is
The Population Research Institute, incidentally, appears to be an organisation dedicated to preventing contraception and abortion worldwide, founded by a Catholic priestpic.twitter.com/jGJX4C5ocD
All of this points toward a somewhat biased view of the facts Natural News took this anti-contraceptive slant and turned it into a population apocalypse
This is my favorite line. Not supported, not really demonstrable in any way, and not linked to any scientists That isn't how any of this workspic.twitter.com/UZWjC4jcRP
There are a few quotes attributed to the authors of the study as support of this affecting humans, without mentioning that the study author was TALKING ABOUT FISH
The final line is an unreferenced, unsupported claim about EE2 causing unspecified "effects" in "human tissues", which is arguably the most meaningless statement imaginable
Most things "effect" human tissues, but whether they are harmful or not is another question entirely
Anyway, this has been a fun journey through the pixellation to some actual science about environmental pollutants and what they might mean to Japanese Medaka fish
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