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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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Can I get a fact check ploise? @DrScienceLover @RRI_Directorpic.twitter.com/0T4t7emCpg
This book the source for the claim. I am hella suspicious.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Count-Down/Shanna-H-Swan/9781982113667 …
Looks like the original source is the author of this paper, who in that book projects ~linearly~ the decrease in sperm count between 1973 and 2011 into the future Needless to say, that is, uh, not very sciencyhttps://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/23/6/646/4035689#98596711 …
Just remembered this article; a good summary on the scientific debate over what is happening to sperm counts.
But of course a claim such as "ZERO sperms by 2054"is gonna sell book copies
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/sperm-counts-continue-to-fall/572794/ …
Well, the author of the Guardian piece has been publishing the same thing about PFAS for forever, so I'm not entirely surprised that the absurd claim made it in there unchallenged
I'm not surprised but I'm still disappointed
I mean... zero sperm? Across the entire globe, in every existing testicle? How... uh, well, frankly, er, dumb do you have to be to 1) believe that; 2) extrapolate that to "zero humans"? (I haven't read whatever that image is quoting, my eyes are rolled too far into my head.)
Yeh it's absurd sensationalism. Also, probably impossible mathematically unless every single man loses every single viable sperm
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