Atrazine | Making Men more ‘Feminine’ (via Rain?)
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All I’m saying.. is that it certainly explains a lot of the “cray cray” going on in the world…
First published: 28 October, 2022 | Last Updated: 26 April, 2023
Bioweapon/Herbicide: Chemical Castration & “Feminization” and complete sex-reversal in frogs. It messes with our hormone levels, cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems. It causes growth retardation and birth defects. It was banned in Europe in 2004, yet it is the 2nd most widely used herbicide in both the United States and Australia and is found in our drinking water via rainfall. A China state-owned “untouchable agricultural & chemical giant” that, no kidding around here, merged with Novartis (ties to BioNTech/Pfizer) and AstraZeneca/Janssen. I seriously can’t make this up.
Syngenta AG manufactures Atrazine. Syngenta was founded in 2000 by the merger of Novartis and AstraZeneca. It was acquired by state-owned ChemChina in 2017—the largest takeover by a Chinese company to date. #WTF? (01)“Atrazine’s primary manufacturer is Syngenta AG – “Syngenta AG is a provider of agricultural science and technology, in particular seeds and pesticides with its management headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. It is owned by … Click for full citation (02) Novartis AG is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis
If that’s not already suspicious enough, the main thing that got my attention is coming across this video with Professor Tyrone Hayes:
Professor Tyrone Hayes (Biologist) and his studies on the ubiquitous herbicide atrazine, manufactured by Syngenta, became a lightning rod issue in the 2000s because he was hired by Syngenta’s predecessor, Novartis Agribusiness to do safety studies on frogs, fully expecting nothing out of the ordinary to happen i.e. “just another gig“, but alarmingly found that male frogs exposed to atrazine not only exhibited homosexual behaviour, but also biologically morphed into female frogs, and when he reported the shocking results, was harrassed, tormented, and vilified for years by the agricultural giant. (03)Hayes TB, Khoury V, Narayan A, Nazir M, Park A, Brown T, Adame L, Chan E, Buchholz D, Stueve T, Gallipeau S. Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 … Click for full citation
Court released internal memo: (04) Timestamp https://youtu.be/W4Wn_5dRPJE?t=1085 “court released memo science strategy to “discredit Hayes“ (05)Syngenta Harassed the Scientist Who Exposed Risks of its Herbicide Atrazine “Internal documents made public in litigation reveal Syngenta’s plans to harass Hayes in an effort to both discredit his science and tarnish his reputation as a … Click for full citation
Syngenta had a science strategy to “discredit Hayes“.
… including: (06)“While Syngenta and Hayes fought an increasingly public battle over the following years, the company’s new plans to discredit Hayes were formed in 2004 and 2005, according to documents unsealed following the 2012 legal settlement. Notes by … Click for full citation
- “publication of 3rd party critique of his science,”
- “systematic rebuttals of all TH (Tyrone Hayes) appearances,”
- “making emails public,”
- “contact Berkeley,”
- and even “investigate wife.”
Wow – sound familiar? (07) [Fauci] Media-Smear Campaign Of Prominent Epidemiologists (Senate Hearing Jan 2022)
Atrazine-exposed male frogs were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults—their genes said they should be male, but they had female anatomy, including ovaries. (08)Atrazine is an endocrine disruptor in humans as well, meaning it can interact with the hormone system and have negative health impacts at extremely low levels of exposure — levels well below what the federal government considers … Click for full citation (09)LGBTF? Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females By Rachael Rettner | LiveScience | “Common pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are successfully able to reproduce, a new study finds”. … Click for full citation
The feminized frogs were able to mate with males and produce viable eggs.
Frogs exposed to atrazine also had reduced testosterone levels, decreased fertility, and showed less mating behaviour.
“In male frogs, exposure to atrazine causes a kind of “chemical castration,” causing them to develop female sex characteristics”. (10) Pesticide Action Network | Atrazine https://www.panna.org/resources/specific-pesticides/atrazine
Atrazine is an Endocrine disruptor in humans which not only messes with our hormone levels, cardiovascular system, immune system, and nervous systems, but also causes growth retardation and birth defects (causing growth retardation, micro-penises, hypospadias and crytoprchidism, choanal atresia, male-genital deformations, gastroschisis & more). (11)“The primary target of atrazine in humans and animals is the endocrine (hormonal) system. Studies thus far suggest that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor; an agent that has been shown to alter the natural hormonal system in animals. Atrazine … Click for full citation (12)“Eight hundred five cases and 3616 control subjects were identified. Gastroschisis occurred more frequently among those who resided <25 km from a site of high atrazine concentration (odds ratio, 1.6). Risk was related inversely to the … Click for full citation
Image Source (13)“Endocrine Disruptors mimic hormones and interfere with the functioning of endocrine (hormone) systems | Lake Apopka alligators Males with low testosterone Females elevated estrogen – fewer viable eggs Fewer juveniles 1980 spill of DDT and … Click for full citation
Human exposure to atrazine is linked to a number of serious health effects. A potent endocrine disrupter, atrazine interferes with hormonal activity of animals and humans at extremely low doses. (14) Pesticide Action Network | Atrazine https://www.panna.org/resources/specific-pesticides/atrazine
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, reviewed evidence from both laboratory and epidemiology studies that human exposures to atrazine may be associated with the following cancers: lung, bladder, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, ovarian, and colon cancer. (15) IARC. Monographs of the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. 1999; 73:59-113. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/hea_07091201a.pdf
In addition to cancer risks, published scientific studies have reported that atrazine caused delayed reproductive development in lab rodents (16)Laws SC, Ferrell JM, Stoker TE, Cooper RL. Pubertal development in female Wistar rats following exposure to propazine and atrazine biotransformation by-products, diamino-S-chlorotriazine and hydroxyatrazine. Toxicol Sci. 2003 Nov;76(1):190-200. doi: … Click for full citation (17)Stoker TE, Laws SC, Guidici DL, Cooper RL. The effect of atrazine on puberty in male wistar rats: an evaluation in the protocol for the assessment of pubertal development and thyroid function. Toxicol Sci. 2000 Nov;58(1):50-9. doi: … Click for full citation (18)Stoker TE, Guidici DL, Laws SC, Cooper RL. The effects of atrazine metabolites on puberty and thyroid function in the male Wistar rat. Toxicol Sci. 2002 Jun;67(2):198-206. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/67.2.198. PMID: 12011479. … Click for full citation
Reduced sperm quality in humans (19)Swan SH, Kruse RL, Liu F, Barr DB, Drobnis EZ, Redmon JB, Wang C, Brazil C, Overstreet JW; Study for Future Families Research Group. Semen quality in relation to biomarkers of pesticide exposure. Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Sep;111(12):1478-84. … Click for full citation
Impaired immune system function leading to increased susceptibility to infection in amphibians (20)Kiesecker JM. Synergism between trematode infection and pesticide exposure: a link to amphibian limb deformities in nature? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jul 23;99(15):9900-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.152098899. Epub 2002 Jul 12. PMID: 12118118; PMCID: … Click for full citation and juvenile rodents (21)Filipov NM, Pinchuk LM, Boyd BL, Crittenden PL. Immunotoxic effects of short-term atrazine exposure in young male C57BL/6 mice. Toxicol Sci. 2005 Aug;86(2):324-32. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfi188. Epub 2005 May 11. PMID: 15888671. … Click for full citation
Image Source: Endocrine Disruptors: Atrazine. (22)Endocrine Disruptors: Atrazine. Jonathan Shalom Dr. Blumberg Bio Sci 2B April 20 th , 2005 . What is the Endocrine System and what is its purpose?. Composition of many glands (ovaries, testes, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal) … Click for full citation
And all sorts of toxicology studies listed in the WHO drinking water guidelines for Atrazine — that they marked as “safe” but you can see the studies for yourself and decide whether they might be a little biased towards <ahem… corrupt as hell… and in bed with…> their Big pharma/chem/AG -partners/co-conspirators. (23)WHO (2011) Atrazine and its metabolites in drinking-water. Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO/HSE/WSH/10.01/11/Rev/1). … Click for full citation
You’ll find a lot of statements that show just how long they have been using this tactic that corrupts “the science” and “fools the scientists / academics / media / politicians / regulatory agencies” – it will look very familiar to you after 3 years of the same propaganda with Covid-19.
example:
Atrazine was tested for “insert alarming toxic study that showed reduced survival, shortened lifespan, death, or some kind of evidence that shows a massive red flag as to why it should never be approved here“… and then after the statement about the study… will be “nothing to see here, move along, it’s all safe & effective and no matter what atrocities happened to the animals, we conclude it’s harmless to humans”…
“JMPR agreed that it is unlikely that atrazine is genotoxic.“ or “Thus, JMPR considered that the mode of carcinogenic action in certain susceptible rat strains is not relevant for human risk assessment.” or “JMPR concluded that atrazine is not likely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans“, etc. JMPR = “Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues” (Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee)
i.e. “Long-term studies of toxicity and carcinogenicity were conducted in mice and rats. As in short-term studies, reduced body weight gain and food intake and a decrease in erythrocyte parameters were noted consistently. Additionally, reduced survival of females and cardiovascular effects (atrial thrombi) in both sexes were observed in mice at high doses.”
“List 10 more studies…Conclude SAFE”
JMPR concluded that atrazine is not likely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans.
Does it seem weird to you that the statement they used to conclude that section is in regards to carcinogenic risks? Completely bypassing the “reduced survival“, and what is artrial thrombi? a travelling clot? A quick search on brave and even the first few results show that this carries a high mortality rate.
I’ll include some more examples from the WHO files in a later section, but the document is worth the read in full – it doesn’t take long, and it’s fascinating reading how they sound more like the marketing group for the chemical companies – however, it’s not that surprising anymore, not after 3 years of reading the same propaganda language.
Given this research, it could very much be responsible for our reduced testosterone levels and the decrease in sexual desires:
A 2007 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that testosterone levels in American men have declined by 1% every year since the late 1980s. In other words, a 40-year-old man in 2021 has testosterone levels 30% lower than a 40-year-old man in 1991. (24)Travison TG, Araujo AB, O’Donnell AB, Kupelian V, McKinlay JB. A population-level decline in serum testosterone levels in American men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Jan;92(1):196-202. doi: 10.1210/jc.2006-1375. Epub 2006 Oct 24. PMID: … Click for full citation
A presentation by Yale researchers at the 2020 American Urological Association Virtual Experience outlined how testosterone deficiency has a prevalence upwards of 40% in American men. Less testosterone means less sexual desire and lower sperm counts, thus, less procreation.
- According to the study, potential causes for these declines could be increased obesity/BMI, assay variations, diet/phytoestrogens, declined exercise and physical activity, fat percentage, marijuana use, and environmental toxins. (25) Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men. July 4, 2020. Urology Times Journal, Vol 48 No 7, Volume 48, Yale School of Medicine
A paper published in 2021 by the same Yale researchers concludes that testosterone levels have been declining in young adult men in recent decades: (26)Lokeshwar SD, Patel P, Fantus RJ, Halpern J, Chang C, Kargi AY, Ramasamy R. Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels Among Adolescent and Young Adult Men in the USA. Eur Urol Focus. 2021 Jul;7(4):886-889. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2020.02.006. Epub 2020 Feb … Click for full citation
- There has been a decline in mean TT levels over the past two decades and TT is lower with progressively higher body mass index. Elevated body mass index (BMI) was associated with lower TT, but the trend remained significant even among men with normal BMI.
- Limitations include the influence of confounding variables such as environmental factors and the use of differing assays for TT measurement.
In 2019, Melbourne scientists called for a ban on the so-called “Safe” herbicide in Australia after the results of their study “Exposure to atrazine during puberty reduces sperm viability, increases weight gain and alters the expression of key metabolic genes in the liver of male mice“, published on the CSIRO website and in the Reproduction, Fertility and Development journal, raised alarm bells on male reproductive health (27)Cook LE, Finger BJ, Green MP, Pask AJ. Exposure to atrazine during puberty reduces sperm viability, increases weight gain and alters the expression of key metabolic genes in the liver of male mice. Reprod Fertil Dev. 2019 Apr;31(5):920-931. doi: … Click for full citation
The study stated that it was a common contaminate in drinking water, disrupted metabolic pathways in plants, and has metabolic and reproductive effects in vertebrates, including humans.
“The last 50 years has seen a rapid decline in male reproductive health”. (28)‘Safe’ Herbicide In Australian Water Affects Male Fertility Scientists are calling for a herbicide banned in the European Union for the last 15 years to be withdrawn in Australia for its effect on male fertility. University of Melbourne … Click for full citation
- Decreased sperm counts, increased rates of testicular cancer and a range of malformations in male genitalia have been reported in industrialised countries across the globe.
- Because it’s a common contaminant in the waterways of Australia, the study suggests ATZ can alter liver gene expression and affect weight, indicating alterations to metabolism in addition to ATZ’s effects on hormone disruption.
- Lower doses over a long exposure time may potentially do more damage than a high dose. This is because the low dose is likely to be similar in concentration to the body’s own hormones while the very high dose can be too high to generate a response”.
(Oh wow, Atrazine is abbreviated to ATZ? Is this another coincidence…? re: AZT (azidothymidine)-the “AIDS” drug that was supposed to delay the development of AIDS, yet actually caused all the symptoms people were getting. Or maybe you start to see connections in everything once you realize how evil this world has become.)
What if it’s “deliberate contamination”?:
For years, the “eugenics-obsessed” globalist-controllers have wanted to find ways to reduce the population in a “humane way.” (I think the word was “civilized” for a memory). Under the cover of “Planned Parenthood and Population Council” organizations, including the United Nations, The Club of Rome, etc., they research and implement ways via Public Policy to do just that. (29)“The purpose of the Population Council, was to reduce population…cohort renaming of Eugenics to Genetics … GMO = Population Control.” [2013] The Hidden Agenda Of Monsanto, GMOs, … Click for full citation (30)“The same crowd that created Hitler, arranged for the assassination of Lincoln & Kennedy & wants to drastically reduce the population” Collection Of Politicians & Insiders Warning About The NWO Or Great Reset … Click for full citation (31) “Under the terms of the Global 2000 Report, the population of the United States is to be reduced by 100 million by the year 2050″ 1994 – Dr John Coleman (32)“So, I knew the Gates family was obsessed with reducing and controlling the population, but I never knew that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation used to be named the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and … Click for full citation (33)“Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former (and longest serving) Prime Minister of Malaysia (who for over 40 years as a world leader would have been privy to the highest level international meetings) warned at the … Click for full citation (34)Stanley Johnson (2012) thinks it would be ideal to Reduce The Population Of The UK From 68 Million To 15 Million By 2025 and Boris jokes humans should be fed to the animals. Boris Johnson’s Father On The Depopulation Of … Click for full citation (35)“The programme’s still out there, they call it “Agenda 21” or they have some other names that they’re giving to it, but the same details – they know they have to reduce the population of the planet. Quote “All … Click for full citation (36) … and a lot more evidence and links within my blog but my computer is running like a slug tonight… browse tag “depopulation”
- Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was the vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and founder of what is now the Guttmacher Institute. (Sidenote: Bill Gates Senior was also head of Planned Parenthood back in the day, and as much as that information has been whitewashed, Bill Gates himself outed his dad in an interview). But I digress… (kind of)
- In 1969, Jaffe wrote a memorandum, by request of the head of the Population Council, reviewing then-current ideas for population control from a wide range of organizations, which, in a single page, conveys the lengths that elitists are willing to go to ‘manage’ the Population, that includes “Fertility control agents in water supply.” and “Forced Sterilization” amongst others (see next point) (37) The ‘Jaffe Memo’ is an infamous document produced by Planned Parenthood in 1969 which, in a single page, conveys the lengths that elitists are willing to go to ‘manage’ the U.S. Population. https://jaffememo.com/
- Fertility control agents in water supply.
- [Induce?] Chronic Depression
- Compulsory abortion
- Compulsory sterilization
- Discouragement of private home ownership (38) See also: “Privately owned housing would become a thing of the past. The cost of housing and financing housing would gradually be made so high that most people couldn’t afford it.”
PROPOSED MEASURES TO REDUCE FERTILITY, BY UNIVERSALITY OR SELECTIVITY OF IMPACT:
Source: JaffeMemo (39)“The measures tabulated here are derived primarily from Davis, Science. 11/10/67; Michael Young’s remarks at NIH Conference 6/67; L. & A. Day, Too Many Americans; J. Blake in Sheps & Ridley, Public Health & Population Change; and … Click for full citation
UNIVERSAL IMPACT:
- Restructure family:
- a) Postpone or avoid marriage
- b) Alter image of ideal family size
- Compulsory education of children
- Encourage increased homosexuality
- Educate for family limitation
- Fertility control agents in water supply
- Encourage women to work
SELECTIVE IMPACT DEPENDING ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
Economic Deterrents/Incentives
- Modify tax policies:
- a) Substantial marriage tax
- b) Child Tax
- c) Tax married more than single
- d) Remove parents’ tax exemption
- d) Additional taxes on parents with more than 1 or 2 children in school
- Reduce/eliminate paid maternity leave or benefits
- Reduce/eliminate children’s or family allowances
- Bonuses for delayed marriage and greater child spacing
- Pensions for women of 45 with less than N children
- Eliminate Welfare payments after first 2 children
- Chronic Depression
- Require women to work and provide few child care facilities
- Limit/eliminate publicly-financed medical care, scholarships, housing, loans and subsidies to families with more than N children
Social Controls
- Compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies
- Compulsory sterilization of all who have two children except for a few who would be allowed three
- Confine childbearing to only a limited number of adults
- Stock certificate type permits for children
- Housing Policies:
- a) Discouragement of private home ownership
- b) Stop awarding public housing based on family size
Measures Predicated on Existing Motivation to Prevent Unwanted Pregnancy
- Payments to encourage sterilization
- Payments to encourage contraception
- Payments to encourage abortion
- Abortion and sterilization on demand
- Allow harmless contraceptives to be distributed non-medically
- Improve contraceptive technology
- Make contraception truly available and accessible
- Improve maternal health care, with family planning a core element
Original copy of the Memo was published in 1970 in the Planned-Parenthood World Population review (40)Elliott R, Landman LC, Lincoln R, Tsuoroka T. U. S. population growth and family planning: a review of the literature. Fam Plann Perspect. 1970 Oct;2(4):ii-xvi. PMID: 4950902. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2133834 or in this journal: … Click for full citation
Syngenta is an evil corporation:
Atrazine was Banned in Europe in 2004 (41) A Pesticide Banned, or Not, Underscores Trans-Atlantic Trade Sensitivities | New York Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/international/a-pesticide-banned-or-not-underscores-trans-atlantic-trade-sensitivities.html?_r=0
Its use was banned in the European Union in 2004, when the EU found groundwater levels exceeding the limits set by regulators, and Syngenta could not show that this could be prevented nor that these levels were safe. (42)“Decision 2004/248/EC – Official Journal L 078, Decision 2004/248/EC. March 16, 2004: “In particular, available monitoring data were insufficient to demonstrate that in large areas concentrations of the active substance and its … Click for full citation Prior to this, Italy and Germany banned the use of atrazine in 1991 with Sweden, Finland, and Denmark following suit in 1994 (43)Vonberg D, Vanderborght J, Cremer N, Pütz T, Herbst M, Vereecken H. 20 years of long-term atrazine monitoring in a shallow aquifer in western Germany. Water Res. 2014 Mar 1;50:294-306. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.032. Epub 2013 Oct 24. PMID: … Click for full citation (44)Jablonowski ND, Schäffer A, Burauel P. Still present after all these years: persistence plus potential toxicity raise questions about the use of atrazine. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2011 Feb;18(2):328-31. doi: 10.1007/s11356-010-0431-y. Epub 2010 … Click for full citation
In 2006, a paper was published in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, calling out the EPA regulator corruption and under-the-table tactics with Syngenta stating: (45) Sass JB, Colangelo A. European Union bans atrazine, while the United States negotiates continued use. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2006 Jul-Sep;12(3):260-7. doi: 10.1179/oeh.2006.12.3.260. PMID: 16967834. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16967834/
Atrazine is a common agricultural herbicide with endocrine disruptor activity. There is evidence that it interferes with reproduction and development, and may cause cancer. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved its continued use in October 2003, that same month the European Union (EU) announced a ban of atrazine because of ubiquitous and unpreventable water contamination. The authors reviewed regulatory procedures and government documents, and report efforts by the manufacturer of atrazine, Syngenta, to influence the U.S. atrazine assessment, by submitting flawed scientific data as evidence of no harm, and by meeting repeatedly and privately with EPA to negotiate the government’s regulatory approach. Many of the details of these negotiations continue to be withheld from the public, despite EPA regulations and federal open-government laws that require such decisions to be made in the open.
In 2012, Syngenta, manufacturer of atrazine, agreed to pay $105 million to reimburse more than one thousand water systems for “the cost of filtering atrazine from drinking water” (46)“Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to reimburse more than one thousand water systems for “the cost of filtering atrazine from drinking water”” | City of Greenville v. Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., and Syngenta … Click for full citation
During the court case, they “looked into the personal life” of the judge, “tried to discredit and intimidate” the lead scientist, and created phoney experts and third-party allies to appear to be independent supporters. (47)Special Report: Syngenta’s campaign to protect atrazine, discredit critics. “To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide atrazine, Syngenta Crop Protection launched an aggressive multi-million dollar … Click for full citation
In 2015, a study was published in the journal “Toxics” calling out the toxic affects of Atrazine but also pointing out that “EPA regulates atrazine at 3 parts per billion (ppb; μg/L) in drinking water, while the World Health Organization recently changed their drinking water guideline to 100 ppb“. (48)Wirbisky SE, Freeman JL. Atrazine Exposure and Reproductive Dysfunction through the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis. Toxics. 2015 Dec;3(4):414-450. doi: 10.3390/toxics3040414. Epub 2015 Nov 2. PMID: 28713818; PMCID: PMC5507375. … Click for full citation
Wow, if you still have any doubts about where the World HELL/HOMOCIDE organization stands on the “health” of the global population, this should snap you out of it. The alarming “frog” study was done with only 2.5 ppb. And I downloaded their (WHO’s) guidelines and references and annexures and source-studies, and guess what’s missing from their safety studies? You guessed correctly – there are zero frog studies listed. But reading through the studies they chose to show-case, makes me wish there was clean water on this planet that hasn’t been poisoned by greedy corporations. Wish I could afford a decent water filter because I don’t even want my plants to be watered with it. By the way, pregnant people and those with cancer should be especially alarmed at the water toxicity studies, particularly because they clearly cherry-picked studies for approval and it was still terrifying. (49) WHO (2011) Atrazine and its metabolites in drinking-water. Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO/HSE/WSH/10.01/11/Rev/1). (50) Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality: Fourth Edition Incorporating the First Addendum. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. 12, Chemical fact sheets. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK442375/
In 2020, a lawsuit was launched against the EPA over its decision to reapprove atrazine despite knowing it castrates frogs, impairs fish reproduction, and is linked to birth defects and cancer in humans. The Center for Food Safety’s article states “This decision is part of a sweeping effort by the EPA in recent months to quickly approve numerous extremely controversial and harmful pesticides, including dicamba, paraquat, 1,3-D, and multiple pyrethroids.” (51)Oct 20, 2020 – Lawsuit Challenges EPA Reapproval of Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticide Atrazine https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/6182/lawsuit-challenges-epa-reapproval-of-endocrine-disrupting-pesticide-atrazine PDF of filing: … Click for full citation
Atrazine contaminates our water supplies and food sources
- Some 225,000 kilograms of the herbicide fall with the rain each year, sometimes up to 1,000 kilometres from the source. (52)“The bountiful fields of the U.S. are awash in atrazine. Some 36 million kilograms of the odorless, white powder are applied on farms to control grassy weeds. Some 225,000 kilograms of the herbicide fall with the rain each year, sometimes up … Click for full citation
- Atrazine was the most commonly detected pesticide contaminating drinking water in the U.S (53) Based on results from 51 studies across the Nation – 1992-2001 . | “Twenty-five pesticide compounds, including 24 pesticides and 1 degradate, were each detected more than 10 percent of the time in streams in agricultural, urban, or … Click for full citation
- Atrazine is the most commonly-detected pesticide in U.S. ground water, according to The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project.
- The EPA allows 3 parts per billion in the drinking water, and the frog studies were done on only 2.5 parts per billion. (54)A Common Herbicide Turns Some Male Frogs into Females “One of the mostly widely used weed killers, atrazine, may be disrupting male frogs’ sexual development–even reversing it” As described in the March … Click for full citation
- EPA conducted a special monitoring program of selected drinking water supplies in ten US states from 2003 to 2005. The study found that 94 of the 136 public water systems tested had atrazine concentrations above the 3 ppb drinking water standard in their raw (untreated) water for at least one 90-day period. (55) U.S. EPA, Summary of 2003 – 2005 AMP Results, August 2006 https://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/atrazine/amp_2003_2005_sum.pdf
Despite this, it is one of the most widely used herbicides in both the United States and Australia:
- “Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in Australian agriculture” – APVMA.gov.au (56) “Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in Australian agriculture“. | Atrazine chemical review | Australian Government | Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority | https://apvma.gov.au/node/12371
- “Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in the United States and Australian agriculture” – EPA.gov (57) “One of the most widely used herbicides in the United States and Australian agriculture” | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Atrazine (58) “Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the United States” http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/Atrazine_summary.pdf
- “Atrazine is the second-most common herbicide next to Monsanto‘s glyphosate/Roundup” (59)In 2007, glyphosate was the most used herbicide in the United States’ agricultural sector and the second-most used (after Dichloropropene 2,4-D) in home and garden, government and industry, and commercial applications. See table “Most … Click for full citation
You can’t make this up.
2017 SACNAS Keynote Presentation: Tyrone B. Hayes, PhD
Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, where he developed his love for biology.
- He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD from the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993.
- After completing his PhD, he began post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, and the Cancer Research Laboratories at UC Berkeley (funded by the National Science Foundation)
- This training was truncated when he was hired as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in 1994.
- Hayes’ research focuses on developmental endocrinology with an emphasis on evolution and environmental regulation of growth and development.
For the last 15 years, the role of endocrine disrupting contaminants, particularly pesticides, has been a major focus. Hayes is interested in the impact of chemical contaminants on environmental health and public health with specific interests in the role of pesticides in global amphibian declines and environmental justice concerns associated with targeted exposure of racial and ethnic minorities to endocrine disruptors and the role that exposure plays in health care disparities.
Novartis > BioNTech > Pfizer > Molecular Partners AG > Gene-Therapy > DARPins > Janssen all connected in some way:
- Novartis is known for its abusive practices “to preserve sales over cheaper drugs” and received a giant fine in September 2020 (60)Pharmaceutical giants fined record €444 million for ‘abusive practices’ https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/130513/record-e444-million-fine-for-three-pharmaceutical-companies-over-abusive-practices In September 2020, Novartis was … Click for full citation
- hmm… sounds familiar... Pfizer shares that same control over regulators and the tendency to be abusive. By the way, did you know that Pfizer & Monsanto are the same company?) Speaking of Pfizer… BioNTech purchased a Novartis production facility for the Pfizer vaccine in September 2020. (61) BioNTech purchased a large production facility from Novartis to follow all advance demands for its coronavirus vaccine in Europe and sell it to China. https://www.ft.com/content/65d0b33a-f12a-4878-ac87-da4835683949
- In October 2020, Novartis acquired a novel “Gene Therapy” company (Vedere Bio) (62) Novartis Acquires Vedere Bio, a Novel Optogenetics AAV Gene Therapy Company for $280 million. https://www.biospace.c om/article/novartis-acquires-vedere-bio-a-novel-optogenetics-aav-gene-therapy-company/ (63) Novartis Expands Footprint in Gene and Cell Therapy with Vedere Bio Acquisition https://www.biospace.com/article/novartis-adds-vedere-bio-to-its-gene-and-cell-therapy-mix-in-280-million-deal/
- In October 2020, as part of a joint venture to develop therapeutic drugs to “combat COVID-19”, Novartis bought shares in Molecular Partners AG, a clinical-stage biotech company that is developing a new class of custom-built protein drugs known as DARPins. (64) Molecular Partners’ Option And License Agreement With Novartis http://www.globallegalchronicle.com/molecular-partners-option-and-license-agreement-with-novartis/
- DARPins are genetically engineered antibody mimetic proteins typically exhibiting highly specific and high-affinity target protein binding and responsible for diverse functions such as cell signaling, regulation and structural integrity of the cell. (65) DARPin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPin
- Since the company’s inception in 2004, Molecular Partners licensed additional DARPin candidates to other leading international pharmaceutical companies, such as Amgen, Roche and Janssen. (66) Molecular Partners Announces Collaboration with Janssen https://www.molecularpartners.com/molecular-partners-announces-collaboration-with-janssen/
- Oh, and they were “excited to welcome” a former Pfizer/Pharmacia Vice President & President R&D – responsible for manufacturing – to their board of directors. (67) Molecular Partners appoints Göran Ando as independent non executive board member https://www.molecularpartners.com/mp-appoints-goran-ando-as-independent-board-member/
- Since the company’s inception in 2004, Molecular Partners licensed additional DARPin candidates to other leading international pharmaceutical companies, such as Amgen, Roche and Janssen. (66) Molecular Partners Announces Collaboration with Janssen https://www.molecularpartners.com/molecular-partners-announces-collaboration-with-janssen/
- DARPins are genetically engineered antibody mimetic proteins typically exhibiting highly specific and high-affinity target protein binding and responsible for diverse functions such as cell signaling, regulation and structural integrity of the cell. (65) DARPin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPin
- In December 2020, Novartis acquired Cadent Therapeutics – a neuroscience company. (68)Cadent Therapeutics Enters Agreement to be Acquired by Novartis https://www.biospace.com/article/cadent-therapeutics-enters-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-novartis/ “In December 2020, Novartis announced it would acquire Cadent Therapeutics for up … Click for full citation
- Which has experimental treatments for: Schizophrenia, “treatment-resistant” depression, and movement disorders. (69)Novartis builds on commitment to addressing need in neuropsychiatric disorders with Cadent Therapeutics acquisition … Click for full citation
- “There is good evidence, both from human genetics as well as clinical studies, that NMDA receptors, which regulate learning, memory and plasticity in the brain, function sub-optimally in schizophrenia. By modulating the activity of these receptors, we think CAD-9303 could potentially treat negative and cognitive symptoms and help address one of the key gaps in schizophrenia care.”
- The experimental therapy for depression, MIJ821, is currently being tested in a Phase II trial. The compound selectively modulates a subset of NMDA receptors that have been linked to depression biology.
- Which has experimental treatments for: Schizophrenia, “treatment-resistant” depression, and movement disorders. (69)Novartis builds on commitment to addressing need in neuropsychiatric disorders with Cadent Therapeutics acquisition … Click for full citation
- In September 2021, the company acquired yet another gene-therapy business, Arctos Medical (70) Novartis Adds to Optogenetics Portfolio with Arctos Medical Buy https://www.biospace.com/article/novartis-snaps-up-arctos-medical-to-target-genetically-related-blindness/?s=79
- “With the acquisition, Novartis will bolster its adeno-associated virus gene therapy-based options for different forms of genetically related blindness.”
- In December 2021, Novartis purchased another gene therapy company called Gyroscope Therapeutics (71)Novartis buys Gyroscope for $1.5 bln to add new retinal gene therapy “In December, Novartis announced it would purchase Gyroscope Therapeutics from health care investment company, Syncona Ltd, for up to $1.5 billion” … Click for full citation
- Their tentacles are all over the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis in every area from Pet care, Livestock, Insect & Rodent control, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural sectors, as well as joint-ventures with GSK.
- Their corruption rapt list is just as alarming as Pfizer’s criminal history.
- In 2008, paid by the gov’t to create a “pandemic flu vaccine”.
- In 2010, they agreed to pay US$422 million in criminal and civil claims after “Federal prosecutors accused Novartis of paying illegal kickbacks to health care professionals through speaker programs, advisory boards, entertainment, travel and meals.”
- In 2013, two more lawsuits for “inducing pharmacies to switch thousands of kidney transplant patients to its immunosuppressant drug Myfortic in exchange for kickbacks disguised as rebates and discounts” and for “off-label marketing of three drugs”.
- In another scandal in 2013, they had several publications of clinical trials retracted because of manipulation of the statistical analysis.
- In 2018, they were investigated for allegedly bribing Greek public officials and money laundering, which was dubbed as “the biggest scandal since the creation of the Greek state” causing “annual state expenditure on medicine to explode”.
“Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water in the Central United States”
“ground breaking analysis of atrazine pollution“
“U.S. EPA is ignoring some very high concentrations of this pesticide in water that people are drinking and using every day. This exposure could have a considerable impact on reproductive health. Scientific research has tied this chemical to some ghastly impacts on wildlife and raises red flags for possible human impacts.”
“People living in contaminated areas need to be made aware — and the regulators need to get this product off the market”
The report reveals that all of the watersheds monitored by EPA and 90% of the drinking water sampled tested positive for atrazine.
“The extent of contamination we found in the data was breathtaking and alarming, the EPA found atrazine almost everywhere they looked. I think that the public will find this hard to swallow and I hope it will help force the EPA to address the situation more aggressively.”
“Recently, the EPA’s regulatory decisions about atrazine have been riddled with questions of impropriety because of the significant and illegal discussions and negotiations between the EPA and the manufacturer spanning two years.”
I’m currently looking up how they treat it at the water treatment centres, and it looks like they treat it with UV radiation, advanced oxidation, and carbon (powdered activated carbon) filtering. (72) Table A5.3 Treatment performance for chemicals from agricultural activities for which guideline values have been established https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK442369/table/annex5.t3/?report=objectonly
The WHO “Atrazine in Drinking Water” Treatment & Control guidelines says chlorine & chlorine dioxide are ineffective, and that the following are effective at removing atrazine: (73)WHO (2011) Atrazine and its metabolites in drinking-water. Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO/HSE/WSH/10.01/11/Rev/1). … Click for full citation
- Granular activated carbon (GAC) -purchased by governments and water treatment centres, so not something we can implement (74) “GAC has been applied successfully to pesticide removal (including atrazine) using slow sand filtration, as a layer 75–200 mm thick, sandwiched between conventional sand media. Contact times are 30–60 min”
- Powdered activated carbon (PAC) -removes 70-100% (75)At a PAC dose of 10 mg/l in deionized water, both achieved ~100% removal. In river water, the removals were reduced to ~95% and ~90%, respectively. In the same study, desethylatrazine was also ~100% removed from deionized water. In river water, the … Click for full citation
- A combination of ozone and either ultraviolet (UV) radiation or hydrogen peroxide (76)At full scale, one treatment works achieved a reduction of approximately 40% (initial concentration 100–600 ng/l) with ozone alone (15 min contact, dose approximately 2.2 mg/l); for the same ozone dose, in combination with hydrogen peroxide … Click for full citation
- Something called Membrane nanofiltration -used only by water treatment plants (77)Pilot plant trials involving membrane filtration have achieved removals between 79% and 99% for atrazine. Atrazine (10 µg/l) was 85–95% removed by a nanofiltration membrane. Atrazine (concentration not stated) was 80–85% removed by different … Click for full citation
- UV radiation (78) UV radiation was effective at reducing atrazine concentrations during laboratory studies. With an irrradiation time of 5 min, the atrazine concentration was reduced by almost 90%.
- UV | Hydrogen Peroxide | Ozone, -with UV/hydrogen peroxide having fastest degradation rate (79)A laboratory comparison of UV, hydrogen peroxide, ozone, ozone/UV, ozone/hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen peroxide/UV and ozone/hydrogen peroxide/UV demonstrated that all processes destroyed atrazine (hydrogen peroxide only at pH >10) and that … Click for full citation
I’m thinking of regularly drinking distilled water, maybe a daily shot of activated charcoal away from food, and regularly adding drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide. I’m pondering whether borax drops might help – curious to see what the studies say. I am also thinking fulvic acid and fermented foods and wondering whether spirulina/chlorella and that type of thing might be helpful. I’ll see what the studies say and drop them in here as I go.
Let’s start with a PubChem search:
- A study on compost makes me think I’m on the right track with Fulvic Acid (80)Tsui L, Roy WR. Effect of compost age and composition on the atrazine removal from solution. J Hazard Mater. 2007 Jan 2;139(1):79-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.06.030. Epub 2006 Jun 16. Erratum in: J Hazard Mater. 2007 Mar 22;141(3):853. PMID: … Click for full citation “When compared with the ISU compost, the ULRC compost sample had a greater capacity to remove atrazine from solution during the 120 days of study because of the larger humic acid content.”
- A study on waste activated carbon reaffirms my idea that adding a shot of activated charcoal a day could be highly beneficial (81) Ghosh PK, Philip L. Performance evaluation of waste activated carbon on atrazine removal from contaminated water. J Environ Sci Health B. 2005;40(3):425-41. doi: 10.1081/pfc-200047576. PMID: 15913015. and a different study showed activated charcoal had a 98% atrazine removal efficiency. (82) Sharma RK, Kumar A, Joseph PE. Removal of atrazine from water by low cost adsorbents derived from agricultural and industrial wastes. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2008 May;80(5):461-4. doi: 10.1007/s00128-008-9389-6. Epub 2008 Mar 21. PMID: 18357400.
- A study on bentonite clays suggests “Bentonite clay was a poor adsorbent of atrazine” (83) Dutta A, Singh N. Surfactant-modified bentonite clays: preparation, characterization, and atrazine removal. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2015 Mar;22(5):3876-85. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3656-3. Epub 2014 Oct 3. PMID: 25273519.
- A study on atrazine removal using a “banana peel based sorbent” showed an effectiveness of 90-99% removal – which is interesting and I’ve no idea how to apply that to the human form lol but maybe someone has a bright idea there (at least it’s a good to know for adding banana peels to our compost to help remove it from our garden). (84) Chaparadza A, Hossenlopp JM. Adsorption kinetics, isotherms and thermodynamics of atrazine removal using a banana peel based sorbent. Water Sci Technol. 2012;65(5):940-7. doi: 10.2166/wst.2012.935. PMID: 22339031. “Batch experiments demonstrated that 15 g L(-1) adsorbent dosage removed 90-99% of atrazine from 1-150 ppm aqueous solutions”
- A study on “Moringa oleifra Lam. seed husks” makes me think adding Moringa powder to our green smoothies will be beneficial (85)Cusioli LF, Bezerra CO, Quesada HB, Alves Baptista AT, Nishi L, Vieira MF, Bergamasco R. Modified Moringa oleifera Lam. Seed husks as low-cost biosorbent for atrazine removal. Environ Technol. 2021 Mar;42(7):1092-1103. doi: … Click for full citation
- A study on Chlorella makes me think taking Chlorella tablets or Powder would be very beneficial (86)Hu N, Xu Y, Sun C, Zhu L, Sun S, Zhao Y, Hu C. Removal of atrazine in catalytic degradation solutions by microalgae Chlorella sp. and evaluation of toxicity of degradation products via algal growth and photosynthetic activity. Ecotoxicol Environ … Click for full citation “31.4% of atrazine was degraded after 60 min…After an 8-d exposure, 83.0% and 64.3% of atrazine were removed from the degraded solutions containing 40 μg/L and 80 μg/L of atrazine, respectively”
- Bloody hell, graphene oxide is raising its ugly and deadly head as there are many studies showing its extremely beneficial for removing atrazine… calling atrazine a “toxic threat” but neglecting to mention how toxic and dangerous graphene is. (87)Muthusaravanan S, Balasubramani K, Suresh R, Ganesh RS, Sivarajasekar N, Arul H, Rambabu K, Bharath G, Sathishkumar VE, Murthy AP, Banat F. Adsorptive removal of noxious atrazine using graphene oxide nanosheets: Insights to process optimization, … Click for full citation
- Loads of new studies containing “genetically engineered microorganisms” for water treatment plants that we should probably look forward to drinking in the near future too. :( (I won’t reference them all here, since I am searching for solutions, not more rabbit holes)
- A study on “organo-zeolites” (whatever that is) talks about the effective adsorption with zeolite, which – if it’s the same thing as the zeolite we normally take, suggests we could probably benefit from regularly adding zeolite, but I didn’t really understand the study at all lol excepting it seemed to infer it to be effective. (88) Lemić J, Kovacević D, Tomasević-Canović M, Kovacević D, Stanić T, Pfend R. Removal of atrazine, lindane and diazinone from water by organo-zeolites. Water Res. 2006 Mar;40(5):1079-85. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2006.01.001. PMID: 16460782.
- Interesting, a study back in 2000 showed that diatomaceous earth was already proven. Interesting since that substance has been vilified to death – to the point where everyone is afraid to take it. Perhaps adding it again or at least adding it to the garden would be beneficial. (89)Agdi K, Bouaid A, Esteban AM, Hernando PF, Azmani A, Camara C. Removal of atrazine and four organophosphorus pesticides from environmental waters by diatomaceous earth-remediation method. J Environ Monit. 2000 Oct;2(5):420-3. doi: 10.1039/b004740f. … Click for full citation “The batch experiments showed that diatomaceous earth was able to remove 95% of chlorpyriphos, 75% of methidathion and parathion-methyl and 55% of atrazine and fenamiphos from all types of waters tested.”
- There was a study on the dietary supplementation with Spirulina on Atrazine-induced oxidative stress and inflammation in “common carp” hehe (90)Toughan H, Khalil SR, El-Ghoneimy AA, Awad A, Seddek AS. Effect of dietary supplementation with Spirulina platensis on Atrazine-induced oxidative stress- mediated hepatic damage and inflammation in the common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Ecotoxicol … Click for full citation “The results indicated that ATZ exposure led to a significant increase in the oxidative stress as suggested by the increased levels of lipid and DNA oxidative damage markers and the significant decline of antioxidant status biomarkers. The group subjected to supplementation with SP exhibited a significant decrease in ATZ-induced oxidative stress-mediated hepatotoxic and inflammatory responses. SP could be a potentially effective and promising candidate as a feed additive for carps in aquaculture.”
Sick of reading studies, now going to browse the web for “atrazine detox” and see what comes up:
- “To guard against endocrine disruptors, which can cause hormonal imbalances, osteoporosis and increase cancer risk, Dr. Zieve told Reset he recommends “adaptogenic combination of herbs such as combinations of high quality forms of Siberian ginseng, ashwagandha, rhodiola, and other similar herbs,” as well herbs such as milk thistle and dandelion root, urtica/nettles and cruciferous vegetables.” and “Dr. Shanahan says a healthy, balanced diet “rich in a variety of fresh, ideally organic/biodynamic vegetables with healthy fats, prepared by steaming or fermentation, is your best bet.” (91) 10 Ways To Cleanse Your Body Of Herbicides, Pesticides And Other Harmful Toxins https://reset.me/story/10-ways-to-cleanse-your-body-of-monsanto-chemicals/
- Dr.Axe “Use a water filter, buy organic“. (92) Atrazine: the Most Common Toxic Contaminant in Our Water https://draxe.com/health/atrazine/
- Dr.Joe “Use a water filter that is certified to remove Atrazine, such as a Berkey, buy organic & wash your produce very well“. (93) Atrazine | 2 Minutes to Better Health https://youtu.be/kcTcLbxyEr4
- “Eat organic (especially the dirty dozen “Strawberries, Celery, Spinach, Pears, Kale, Nectarines, Apples, Cherries, Grapes, Peaches, Tomatoes, Potatoes. and Raisins), Grow some of your own food, Buy organic staples (rice, oats, lentils, etc.), Wash all produce carefully especially the “hollows”, Buy organic coffee, Drink Pure Water – buy a good quality filter (Carbon block and reverse osmosis, or Berkey), Remove chemicals and poisons from your home, Have your soil tested, Learn natural methods to get rid of pests, Choose organic fabrics, home products, and feminine hygiene products.” (94) How To Get Pesticides Out Of Your Life Completely (Do This ASAP!) https://healthpowerboost.com/how-to-get-pesticides-out-of-your-life-completely-do-this-asap/
- Dr. Isaac Eliaz, MD: “Powerful natural binders include citrus pectin, alginates, and organic Icelandic kelp give broad-spectrum defense against a range of pesticides, toxic halogens, organophosphates and other dangerous environmental toxins. Iodine-rich kelp and glycine compete with chemicals such as glyphosate, bromide, fluoride and others, to block their absorption into sensitive organs and tissues like the thyroid.” (95) Everyday Pesticide Detox and Defense https://www.dreliaz.org/formulas/everyday-pesticide-detox-and-defense/
- TRS (Advanced Toxin and Contaminants Removal System – nano zeolites and purified water), Milk Thistle, Epsom Salts Bath, Glutathione, Burdock Root (eliminates toxins and molds that are dying off through the skin), Grapefruit, 3 cloves of Garlic per day, NAC, Alpha lipoic acid. (96) 8 Detox Strategies If You’ve Been Exposed To Pesticides or Toxins https://deeprootsathome.com/detox-sprayed-insecticides/
Atrazine | 2 Minutes to Better Health | Dr Joe
The Truth About The Gay Frogs
23 Jun 2022 YouTube (Justin Harvey)
So recently I shared an Alex Jones meme about the gay frogs, and as many of you know this is one of the funniest Alex Jones outbursts that he’s probably ever done and as funny as it is, we have to take it serious for a minute because this is not a joke. He was not incorrect. It was not a false statement. There actually is chemicals being added to our water supply that are endocrine disrupting, swapping the sex of alligators and frogs after being exposed, overexposed to some of these chemicals.
I’m not trying to say this is purposeful. This could be this could be just a by-product of greed and wanting to use herbicides, but here’s the bottom line: There was a scientist named Dr. Tyrone Hayes, who was studying Syngenta, which is one of the major chemical companies like Monsanto and Bayer, studying their herbicide and seeing if it was safe.
Well, what he found was very alarming and he found that this chemical was chemically castrating frogs, basically turning amphibians from male to female and vice versa.
We even had evidence of hermaphrodite alligators developing in Lake Apopka here locally. (97)Semenza JC, Tolbert PE, Rubin CH, Guillette LJ Jr, Jackson RJ. Reproductive toxins and alligator abnormalities at Lake Apopka, Florida. Environ Health Perspect. 1997 Oct;105(10):1030-2. doi: 10.1289/ehp.971051030. PMID: 9349835; PMCID: PMC1470392. … Click for full citation (98)Abnormal alligators and organochlorine pesticides in Lake Apopka, Florida By: Allan R. Woodward, H. Franklin Percival, R. Heath Rauschenberger, Timothy S. Gross, Kenneth G. Rice, and Roxanne Conrow Edited … Click for full citation (99) Pesticides and hermaphrodite alligators in Lake Apopka https://youtu.be/zf6cL0ehDSk “Turning the alligators from male to female” Interview
So this was something that should cause of serious concern, right? Well, Dr. Tyrone Hayes reported these findings to the company that hired him to do the studies and they told him to shut up. They told him, don’t ask any more questions, don’t report on this study. You need to conclude the study in this way, and he said, no, I am going to stick to my scientific integrity, what I know to be the right thing to do, and he continued to speak out and reveal the results of this study.
Well, this in turn led to a lot of harassment. Now, he just got the typical, “oh, we’re going to defund him, oh, we’re going to take away his job, we’re going to take away his money”. Then they basically went after his credibility. Well, here’s the real kicker: They had secret meetings on how they were going to harass and stalk him and his family. Now, how do we know that’s a pretty, you know, outlandish statement. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Well, Synenta and the people that work at that company that were harassing Dr. Tyrone Hayes, had secret emails where they were discussing how to silence him and how to harass and follow his family members.
These emails were accidentally sent to Dr. Tyrone Hayes. So when Dr. Tyrone Hayes came to Orlando to give his talk at a pesticide conference, he showed us the emails of Syngenta basically plotting to silence him. Now, kudos to this guy for standing up and speaking out and even after finding out about the harassment continues to speak out, and he’s also a hilarious person. Like he gets up there and tells the story, not as doom and gloom or this scary paranoid story about a biotech company harassing him, but he does it like a comedian, and it was a great talk.
It was very insightful, very factual on the science regarding the frog situation, and it just really goes to show you that if you speak truth and report real science that goes against the narrative of these companies, they will try to destroy you in more ways than one.
So I think the takeaway here is how often does this happen? That’s what we have to ask ourselves. I mean, how many times has this happened with Monsanto, with Pfizer, with any of these other chemical or pharmaceutical companies that have had studies done on their product and then suppress the studies that were negative? I’m going to say it happens a lot.
We actually had we had a damning studies on the bee population and what the pesticides were doing and the regulators knew and they covered it up. They knew about the dangers and they cover it up. They know about the genetically modified foods and the genetically modified mosquito risks and they cover it up.
People look at it as like, “oh, you must be there must be some grand conspiracy to concede. No, it’s really not. It’s really just powerful people with this company send threatening emails to the scientists and say, shut up or else.” Call that a conspiracy, call it what you want, but it happens on a regular basis.
So in conclusion, please share these memes that I’m about to post in the next slides because they’re informative on Dr. Hayes’s work, his harassment, and just the story in general, and I think we should all ponder the uncomfortable question as if these chemicals have the ability to change the sex of frogs and alligators, could they possibly be doing that to humans?
That is the question we need to be asking ourselves right now. So share these memes. Let’s get this information out there, encourage people to avoid these toxic products that are being sprayed on our food.
So buy organic as much as you can, grow your food if you can, and remember to enjoy some parts of life that include Alex Jones having an outburst on gay frogs.
“I don’t like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin frogs gay. Do you understand that? Oh, serious crap. I’m sick of being social engineered. It’s not funny.”
- In conclusion, we have a dangerous gene-disrupting chemical—
- —owned by the largest chemical giant in CCP China—
- —tied to all the genetic-engineering giants, who bought out gene-therapy pharma companies in 2020, and is tied to all the Covid vaccines (BioNTech, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Janssen, GSK).
- Then, we find out, the chemical has been banned in other countries for almost 20 years, but still abundantly used in our own country—
- —and is literally in the drinking water.
- Then, we discover it could “feminize” and “homosexualize” men (pronouns anyone?), cause reproductive issues, cancer, cardiac (heart) problems, clots & vascular issues, messes with our immune systems causing all types of unknown illnesses, messes with our nervous systems, as well as our hormones, causes birth defects and other serious reproductive system issues, reduces the survival-rate of both sexes, is potentially the cause of reducing more than 40% of the testosterone levels and a massive decrease in sperm-count in men.
- Then we discover that the EPA, WHO and other regulators covered-up the known issues for the corporate giants – who intimidate anyone who gets in their way as well as bribe officials, and “rig” the science.
- We have frog studies that prove chemical castration happens at 2.5 parts per billion, but the EPA sets the safety limit at 3.5 PPB and the WHO says 100 PPB in the drinking water is acceptable!
- And finally, we have an elite group of power-hungry, eugenics-obsessed psychopaths who hate humanity, who control all these corporations and all public policy, who planned all of this in the 1960s.
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01 | “Atrazine’s primary manufacturer is Syngenta AG – “Syngenta AG is a provider of agricultural science and technology, in particular seeds and pesticides with its management headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. It is owned by ChemChina, a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Syngenta was founded in 2000 by the merger of the agrichemical businesses of Novartis and AstraZeneca, and acquired by China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) in 2017” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngenta |
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02 | Novartis AG is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis |
03 | Hayes TB, Khoury V, Narayan A, Nazir M, Park A, Brown T, Adame L, Chan E, Buchholz D, Stueve T, Gallipeau S. Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Mar 9;107(10):4612-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0909519107. Epub 2010 Mar 1. PMID: 20194757; PMCID: PMC2842049. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20194757/ |
04 | Timestamp https://youtu.be/W4Wn_5dRPJE?t=1085 “court released memo science strategy to “discredit Hayes“ |
05 | Syngenta Harassed the Scientist Who Exposed Risks of its Herbicide Atrazine “Internal documents made public in litigation reveal Syngenta’s plans to harass Hayes in an effort to both discredit his science and tarnish his reputation as a researcher.” – Union of Concerned Scientists https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/syngenta-harassed-scientist-who-exposed-risks-its-herbicide-atrazine |
06 | “While Syngenta and Hayes fought an increasingly public battle over the following years, the company’s new plans to discredit Hayes were formed in 2004 and 2005, according to documents unsealed following the 2012 legal settlement. Notes by Sherry Ford, Syngenta’s communications manager, detail Syngenta’s plans to undermine Hayes, including “publication of 3rd party critique of his science,” “systematic rebuttals of all TH (Tyrone Hayes) appearances,” “making emails public,” “contact Berkeley,” and even “investigate wife.” Syngenta | Clare Howard Investigation | Exhibit19 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/686406-100reporters-syngenta-clare-howard-investigation.html |
07 | [Fauci] Media-Smear Campaign Of Prominent Epidemiologists (Senate Hearing Jan 2022) |
08 | Atrazine is an endocrine disruptor in humans as well, meaning it can interact with the hormone system and have negative health impacts at extremely low levels of exposure — levels well below what the federal government considers “safe” https://www.panna.org/legacy/panups/common-sense-chemical-policy-atrazine-turns-male-frogs-female-oregon-farmers-v |
09 | LGBTF? Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females By Rachael Rettner | LiveScience | “Common pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are successfully able to reproduce, a new study finds”. https://web.archive.org/web/20100305222011/https://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/02/pesticide-turns-male-frogs-females/ |
10, 14 | Pesticide Action Network | Atrazine https://www.panna.org/resources/specific-pesticides/atrazine |
11 | “The primary target of atrazine in humans and animals is the endocrine (hormonal) system. Studies thus far suggest that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor; an agent that has been shown to alter the natural hormonal system in animals. Atrazine exposure has been shown to result in delays or changes in pubertal development in experimental animal studies. Effects reported in adults (human and experimental animals) include shortening of estrous cycle length, attenuation of the LH (leutenizing hormone) surge, decreases in pituitary hormone levels, ovarian histopathology (changes in ovarian tissue), and liver effects including increased serum lipids and liver enzymes, and liver histopathology. Other effects on the central nervous system, immune system, and cardiovascular function have been reported in adults. Exposure to atrazine may be associated with some types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in adult humans. Significantly increased risk of preterm delivery, intrauterine growth retardation, and decreased birth weight were significantly associated with atrazine concentrations in drinking water.” | Atrazine Chemical Summary | http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/Atrazine_summary.pdf |
12 | “Eight hundred five cases and 3616 control subjects were identified. Gastroschisis occurred more frequently among those who resided <25 km from a site of high atrazine concentration (odds ratio, 1.6). Risk was related inversely to the distance between the maternal residence and the closest toxic atrazine site.” | Waller SA, Paul K, Peterson SE, Hitti JE. Agricultural-related chemical exposures, season of conception, and risk of gastroschisis in Washington State. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar;202(3):241.e1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2010.01.023. Erratum in: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Aug;203(2):183. PMID: 20207240. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20207240/ |
13 | “Endocrine Disruptors mimic hormones and interfere with the functioning of endocrine (hormone) systems | Lake Apopka alligators Males with low testosterone Females elevated estrogen – fewer viable eggs Fewer juveniles 1980 spill of DDT and dicofol High agricultural runoff – nitrate may act as endocrine disruptor | Evidence for hormone disruption Feminized male frogs and hermaphrodites from low levels of atrazine Low birth weight human babies from mothers eating fish with PCB Atrazine in streams” https://www.slideserve.com/taite/physical-ionizing-radiation-fire-earthquake-volcano-severe-weather-powerpoint-ppt-presentation |
15 | IARC. Monographs of the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. 1999; 73:59-113. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/hea_07091201a.pdf |
16 | Laws SC, Ferrell JM, Stoker TE, Cooper RL. Pubertal development in female Wistar rats following exposure to propazine and atrazine biotransformation by-products, diamino-S-chlorotriazine and hydroxyatrazine. Toxicol Sci. 2003 Nov;76(1):190-200. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfg223. Epub 2003 Sep 11. PMID: 12970575. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12970575/ |
17 | Stoker TE, Laws SC, Guidici DL, Cooper RL. The effect of atrazine on puberty in male wistar rats: an evaluation in the protocol for the assessment of pubertal development and thyroid function. Toxicol Sci. 2000 Nov;58(1):50-9. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/58.1.50. PMID: 11053540. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11053540/ |
18 | Stoker TE, Guidici DL, Laws SC, Cooper RL. The effects of atrazine metabolites on puberty and thyroid function in the male Wistar rat. Toxicol Sci. 2002 Jun;67(2):198-206. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/67.2.198. PMID: 12011479. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12011479/ |
19 | Swan SH, Kruse RL, Liu F, Barr DB, Drobnis EZ, Redmon JB, Wang C, Brazil C, Overstreet JW; Study for Future Families Research Group. Semen quality in relation to biomarkers of pesticide exposure. Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Sep;111(12):1478-84. doi: 10.1289/ehp.6417. PMID: 12948887; PMCID: PMC1241650. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12948887/ |
20 | Kiesecker JM. Synergism between trematode infection and pesticide exposure: a link to amphibian limb deformities in nature? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jul 23;99(15):9900-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.152098899. Epub 2002 Jul 12. PMID: 12118118; PMCID: PMC126596. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12118118/ |
21 | Filipov NM, Pinchuk LM, Boyd BL, Crittenden PL. Immunotoxic effects of short-term atrazine exposure in young male C57BL/6 mice. Toxicol Sci. 2005 Aug;86(2):324-32. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfi188. Epub 2005 May 11. PMID: 15888671. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15888671/ |
22 | Endocrine Disruptors: Atrazine. Jonathan Shalom Dr. Blumberg Bio Sci 2B April 20 th , 2005 . What is the Endocrine System and what is its purpose?. Composition of many glands (ovaries, testes, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal) https://www.slideserve.com/mae/endocrine-disruptors-atrazine “The Endocrine System may be disrupted in one of three ways: • A substance may imitate a natural hormone and lock onto a receptor within the cell. • A substance can bind to a receptor within a cell and thus prevent the correct hormone from binding. • The disruptors can interfere or block the way natural hormones and receptors are made or controlled.” |
23, 73 | WHO (2011) Atrazine and its metabolites in drinking-water. Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO/HSE/WSH/10.01/11/Rev/1). https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/wash-documents/wash-chemicals/atrazine-background-document.pdf |
24 | Travison TG, Araujo AB, O’Donnell AB, Kupelian V, McKinlay JB. A population-level decline in serum testosterone levels in American men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Jan;92(1):196-202. doi: 10.1210/jc.2006-1375. Epub 2006 Oct 24. PMID: 17062768. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17062768/ |
25 | Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men. July 4, 2020. Urology Times Journal, Vol 48 No 7, Volume 48, Yale School of Medicine |
26 | Lokeshwar SD, Patel P, Fantus RJ, Halpern J, Chang C, Kargi AY, Ramasamy R. Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels Among Adolescent and Young Adult Men in the USA. Eur Urol Focus. 2021 Jul;7(4):886-889. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2020.02.006. Epub 2020 Feb 18. PMID: 32081788. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081788/ |
27 | Cook LE, Finger BJ, Green MP, Pask AJ. Exposure to atrazine during puberty reduces sperm viability, increases weight gain and alters the expression of key metabolic genes in the liver of male mice. Reprod Fertil Dev. 2019 Apr;31(5):920-931. doi: 10.1071/RD18505. PMID: 30636190. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30636190/ |
28 | ‘Safe’ Herbicide In Australian Water Affects Male Fertility Scientists are calling for a herbicide banned in the European Union for the last 15 years to be withdrawn in Australia for its effect on male fertility. University of Melbourne https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/safe-herbicide-in-australian-water-affects-male-fertility |
29 | “The purpose of the Population Council, was to reduce population…cohort renaming of Eugenics to Genetics … GMO = Population Control.” [2013] The Hidden Agenda Of Monsanto, GMOs, Rockefeller & Eugenics (Engdahl) |
30 | “The same crowd that created Hitler, arranged for the assassination of Lincoln & Kennedy & wants to drastically reduce the population” Collection Of Politicians & Insiders Warning About The NWO Or Great Reset – “Industry Insiders” section |
31 | “Under the terms of the Global 2000 Report, the population of the United States is to be reduced by 100 million by the year 2050″ 1994 – Dr John Coleman |
32 | “So, I knew the Gates family was obsessed with reducing and controlling the population, but I never knew that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation used to be named the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health. Did you?” Gates Depopulation Institute |
33 | “Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former (and longest serving) Prime Minister of Malaysia (who for over 40 years as a world leader would have been privy to the highest level international meetings) warned at the International Conference of the New World Order, in Putrajaya, 2015, of the global elite’s The New World Order and depopulation agenda.” Former Prime Minister of Malaysia – Explaining The New World Order & One World Government, in 2015 |
34 | Stanley Johnson (2012) thinks it would be ideal to Reduce The Population Of The UK From 68 Million To 15 Million By 2025 and Boris jokes humans should be fed to the animals. Boris Johnson’s Father On The Depopulation Of Millions By 2025 |
35 | “The programme’s still out there, they call it “Agenda 21” or they have some other names that they’re giving to it, but the same details – they know they have to reduce the population of the planet. Quote “All means necessary”. And that’s biological”. George Green, NWO Insider, 2017 |
36 | … and a lot more evidence and links within my blog but my computer is running like a slug tonight… browse tag “depopulation” |
37 | The ‘Jaffe Memo’ is an infamous document produced by Planned Parenthood in 1969 which, in a single page, conveys the lengths that elitists are willing to go to ‘manage’ the U.S. Population. https://jaffememo.com/ |
38 | See also: “Privately owned housing would become a thing of the past. The cost of housing and financing housing would gradually be made so high that most people couldn’t afford it.” |
39 | “The measures tabulated here are derived primarily from Davis, Science. 11/10/67; Michael Young’s remarks at NIH Conference 6/67; L. & A. Day, Too Many Americans; J. Blake in Sheps & Ridley, Public Health & Population Change; and W. Shockley, Speech in Ontario, 12/67.” Source: Memorandum sent to Bernard Berelson by Frederick S. Jaffe, of the Center for Family Planning Program Development (The Technical Assistance Division of Planned Parenthood-World Population), with the subject: “Activities Relevant to the Study of Population Policy for the United States” “responsive to [Berelson’s letter of Jan. 24], seeking ideas on necessary and useful activities relevant to formation of population policy”. Dated: March 11, 1969. Reproduced from the original by Dr. Anthony Horvath, Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries, in September, 2015. www.athanatosministries.org For even more background, visit jaffememo.com |
40 | Elliott R, Landman LC, Lincoln R, Tsuoroka T. U. S. population growth and family planning: a review of the literature. Fam Plann Perspect. 1970 Oct;2(4):ii-xvi. PMID: 4950902. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2133834 or in this journal: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/U.-S.-population-growth-and-family-planning%3A-a-of-Elliott-Landman/a52c118d2c3bb441cf61d6aed353eacbf0815382 | Chart can be accessed here: “A Family Planning Perspectives Special Supplement” published by Planned Parenthood-World Population, NYC, NY, 19.70 http://uscl.info/edoc/doc.php?doc_id=49&action=inline |
41 | A Pesticide Banned, or Not, Underscores Trans-Atlantic Trade Sensitivities | New York Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/international/a-pesticide-banned-or-not-underscores-trans-atlantic-trade-sensitivities.html?_r=0 |
42 | “Decision 2004/248/EC – Official Journal L 078, Decision 2004/248/EC. March 16, 2004: “In particular, available monitoring data were insufficient to demonstrate that in large areas concentrations of the active substance and its breakdown products will not exceed 0,1 μg/L in groundwater. Moreover, it cannot be assured that continued use in other areas will permit a satisfactory recovery of groundwater quality where concentrations already exceed 0,1 μg/L in groundwater. These levels of the active substance exceed the limits and would have an unacceptable effect on groundwater.” Measures should be taken to ensure that existing authorisations for plant protection products containing atrazine are withdrawn within a prescribed period and are not renewed and that no new authorisations for such products are granted.” | 2004/248/EC: Commission Decision of 10 March 2004 concerning the non-inclusion of atrazine in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC and the withdrawal of authorisations for plant protection products containing this active substance (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2004) 731) |
43 | Vonberg D, Vanderborght J, Cremer N, Pütz T, Herbst M, Vereecken H. 20 years of long-term atrazine monitoring in a shallow aquifer in western Germany. Water Res. 2014 Mar 1;50:294-306. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.032. Epub 2013 Oct 24. PMID: 24188580. |
44 | Jablonowski ND, Schäffer A, Burauel P. Still present after all these years: persistence plus potential toxicity raise questions about the use of atrazine. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2011 Feb;18(2):328-31. doi: 10.1007/s11356-010-0431-y. Epub 2010 Dec 30. PMID: 21191660; PMCID: PMC3030996. |
45 | Sass JB, Colangelo A. European Union bans atrazine, while the United States negotiates continued use. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2006 Jul-Sep;12(3):260-7. doi: 10.1179/oeh.2006.12.3.260. PMID: 16967834. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16967834/ |
46 | “Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to reimburse more than one thousand water systems for “the cost of filtering atrazine from drinking water”” | City of Greenville v. Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., and Syngenta AG, Case No. 3:10-cv-00188-JPG-PMF http://www.atrazinesettlement.com/ |
47 | Special Report: Syngenta’s campaign to protect atrazine, discredit critics. “To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide atrazine, Syngenta Crop Protection launched an aggressive multi-million dollar campaign that included hiring a detective agency to investigate scientists on a federal advisory panel, looking into the personal life of a judge and commissioning a psychological profile of a leading scientist critical of atrazine. The Switzerland-based pesticide manufacturer also routinely paid “third-party allies” to appear to be independent supporters, and kept a list of 130 people and groups it could recruit as experts without disclosing ties to the company. Recently unsealed court documents reveal a corporate strategy to discredit critics and to strip plaintiffs from the class-action case. The company specifically targeted one of atrazine’s fiercest and most outspoken critics, UC-Berkeley’s Tyrone Hayes, whose research suggests that atrazine feminizes male frogs. The campaign is spelled out in hundreds of pages of memos, invoices and other documents from Illinois’ Madison County Circuit Court.” |
48 | Wirbisky SE, Freeman JL. Atrazine Exposure and Reproductive Dysfunction through the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis. Toxics. 2015 Dec;3(4):414-450. doi: 10.3390/toxics3040414. Epub 2015 Nov 2. PMID: 28713818; PMCID: PMC5507375. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507375/ |
49 | WHO (2011) Atrazine and its metabolites in drinking-water. Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO/HSE/WSH/10.01/11/Rev/1). |
50 | Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality: Fourth Edition Incorporating the First Addendum. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. 12, Chemical fact sheets. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK442375/ |
51 | Oct 20, 2020 – Lawsuit Challenges EPA Reapproval of Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticide Atrazine https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/6182/lawsuit-challenges-epa-reapproval-of-endocrine-disrupting-pesticide-atrazine PDF of filing: https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/2020-10-30–ecf-1-6–petition-for-review_83625.pdf |
52 | “The bountiful fields of the U.S. are awash in atrazine. Some 36 million kilograms of the odorless, white powder are applied on farms to control grassy weeds. Some 225,000 kilograms of the herbicide fall with the rain each year, sometimes up to 1,000 kilometers from the source.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-herbicide-turns-male-frogs-into-females/ |
53 | Based on results from 51 studies across the Nation – 1992-2001 . | “Twenty-five pesticide compounds, including 24 pesticides and 1 degradate, were each detected more than 10 percent of the time in streams in agricultural, urban, or mixed-land-use settings, or in more than 2 percent of wells in agricultural or urban settings. Consistent with their patterns of use during the study period, agricultural herbicides—most commonly atrazine (and its degradate deethylatrazine), metolachlor, cyanazine, alachlor, and acetochlor—were detected more frequently in agricultural areas than in urban areas; urban herbicides were found most often in urban areas; and most insecticides, such as diazinon and carbaryl, were detected more frequently in urban streams than in agricultural streams. | The Quality of Our Nation’s Waters Pesticides in the Nation’s Streams and Ground Water https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/pubs/circ1291/ | PDF” |
54 | A Common Herbicide Turns Some Male Frogs into Females “One of the mostly widely used weed killers, atrazine, may be disrupting male frogs’ sexual development–even reversing it” As described in the March 1 Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, 40 African clawed frogs were exposed to to 2.5 parts per billion of atrazine in a water solution continuously for three years—a level below the three ppb allowed in drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As a result, 30 of the frogs were chemically castrated, incapable of reproducing, among other impacts. And four of the treated frogs actually turned female, going so far as to mate with other males and produce viable eggs despite being genetically male. 4 Frogs resisted the effects and the rest “lacked male reproductive behaviour, had reduced male features, and severely reduced sperm and low fertility,“ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-herbicide-turns-male-frogs-into-females/ |
55 | U.S. EPA, Summary of 2003 – 2005 AMP Results, August 2006 https://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/atrazine/amp_2003_2005_sum.pdf |
56 | “Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in Australian agriculture“. | Atrazine chemical review | Australian Government | Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority | https://apvma.gov.au/node/12371 |
57 | “One of the most widely used herbicides in the United States and Australian agriculture” | Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Atrazine |
58 | “Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the United States” http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/Atrazine_summary.pdf |
59 | In 2007, glyphosate was the most used herbicide in the United States’ agricultural sector and the second-most used (after Dichloropropene 2,4-D) in home and garden, government and industry, and commercial applications. See table “Most Commonly Used Conventional Pesticide Active Ingredients, Agricultural Market Sector, 2007, 2005, 2003, and 2001 Estimates” to see Atrazine was ranked 2nd. https://www.epa.gov/opp00001/pestsales/07pestsales/usage2007_2.htm |
60 | Pharmaceutical giants fined record €444 million for ‘abusive practices’ https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/130513/record-e444-million-fine-for-three-pharmaceutical-companies-over-abusive-practices In September 2020, Novartis was imposed a fine by the French competition authority on accusations of abusive practices to preserve sales of Lucentis over a cheaper drug |
61 | BioNTech purchased a large production facility from Novartis to follow all advance demands for its coronavirus vaccine in Europe and sell it to China. https://www.ft.com/content/65d0b33a-f12a-4878-ac87-da4835683949 |
62 | Novartis Acquires Vedere Bio, a Novel Optogenetics AAV Gene Therapy Company for $280 million. https://www.biospace.c om/article/novartis-acquires-vedere-bio-a-novel-optogenetics-aav-gene-therapy-company/ |
63 | Novartis Expands Footprint in Gene and Cell Therapy with Vedere Bio Acquisition https://www.biospace.com/article/novartis-adds-vedere-bio-to-its-gene-and-cell-therapy-mix-in-280-million-deal/ |
64 | Molecular Partners’ Option And License Agreement With Novartis http://www.globallegalchronicle.com/molecular-partners-option-and-license-agreement-with-novartis/ |
65 | DARPin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPin |
66 | Molecular Partners Announces Collaboration with Janssen https://www.molecularpartners.com/molecular-partners-announces-collaboration-with-janssen/ |
67 | Molecular Partners appoints Göran Ando as independent non executive board member https://www.molecularpartners.com/mp-appoints-goran-ando-as-independent-board-member/ |
68 | Cadent Therapeutics Enters Agreement to be Acquired by Novartis https://www.biospace.com/article/cadent-therapeutics-enters-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-novartis/ “In December 2020, Novartis announced it would acquire Cadent Therapeutics for up to $770 million, gaining full rights to CAD-9303 (a NMDAr positive allosteric modulator), MIJ-821 (a NMDAr negative allosteric modulator) and CAD-1883 a clinical-stage SK channel positive allosteric modulator.” |
69 | Novartis builds on commitment to addressing need in neuropsychiatric disorders with Cadent Therapeutics acquisition https://www.novartis.com/news/media-releases/novartis-builds-commitment-addressing-need-neuropsychiatric-disorders-cadent-therapeutics-acquisition |
70 | Novartis Adds to Optogenetics Portfolio with Arctos Medical Buy https://www.biospace.com/article/novartis-snaps-up-arctos-medical-to-target-genetically-related-blindness/?s=79 |
71 | Novartis buys Gyroscope for $1.5 bln to add new retinal gene therapy “In December, Novartis announced it would purchase Gyroscope Therapeutics from health care investment company, Syncona Ltd, for up to $1.5 billion” https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/novartis-buy-gyroscope-therapeutics-up-15-bln-2021-12-22/ |
72 | Table A5.3 Treatment performance for chemicals from agricultural activities for which guideline values have been established https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK442369/table/annex5.t3/?report=objectonly |
74 | “GAC has been applied successfully to pesticide removal (including atrazine) using slow sand filtration, as a layer 75–200 mm thick, sandwiched between conventional sand media. Contact times are 30–60 min” |
75 | At a PAC dose of 10 mg/l in deionized water, both achieved ~100% removal. In river water, the removals were reduced to ~95% and ~90%, respectively. In the same study, desethylatrazine was also ~100% removed from deionized water. In river water, the removals were reduced to ~85% and ~70%, respectively. |
76 | At full scale, one treatment works achieved a reduction of approximately 40% (initial concentration 100–600 ng/l) with ozone alone (15 min contact, dose approximately 2.2 mg/l); for the same ozone dose, in combination with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2/O3 = 0.4 by mass), there was an 80% reduction in atrazine concentration |
77 | Pilot plant trials involving membrane filtration have achieved removals between 79% and 99% for atrazine. Atrazine (10 µg/l) was 85–95% removed by a nanofiltration membrane. Atrazine (concentration not stated) was 80–85% removed by different nanofiltration membranes and 96% removed by a polyamide reverse osmosis membrane. |
78 | UV radiation was effective at reducing atrazine concentrations during laboratory studies. With an irrradiation time of 5 min, the atrazine concentration was reduced by almost 90%. |
79 | A laboratory comparison of UV, hydrogen peroxide, ozone, ozone/UV, ozone/hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen peroxide/UV and ozone/hydrogen peroxide/UV demonstrated that all processes destroyed atrazine (hydrogen peroxide only at pH >10) and that UV/hydrogen peroxide gave the fastest degradation rate |
80 | Tsui L, Roy WR. Effect of compost age and composition on the atrazine removal from solution. J Hazard Mater. 2007 Jan 2;139(1):79-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.06.030. Epub 2006 Jun 16. Erratum in: J Hazard Mater. 2007 Mar 22;141(3):853. PMID: 16876936. |
81 | Ghosh PK, Philip L. Performance evaluation of waste activated carbon on atrazine removal from contaminated water. J Environ Sci Health B. 2005;40(3):425-41. doi: 10.1081/pfc-200047576. PMID: 15913015. |
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85 | Cusioli LF, Bezerra CO, Quesada HB, Alves Baptista AT, Nishi L, Vieira MF, Bergamasco R. Modified Moringa oleifera Lam. Seed husks as low-cost biosorbent for atrazine removal. Environ Technol. 2021 Mar;42(7):1092-1103. doi: 10.1080/09593330.2019.1653381. Epub 2019 Aug 14. PMID: 31412750. |
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90 | Toughan H, Khalil SR, El-Ghoneimy AA, Awad A, Seddek AS. Effect of dietary supplementation with Spirulina platensis on Atrazine-induced oxidative stress- mediated hepatic damage and inflammation in the common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2018 Mar;149:135-142. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.11.018. Epub 2017 Nov 20. PMID: 29156305. |
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92 | Atrazine: the Most Common Toxic Contaminant in Our Water https://draxe.com/health/atrazine/ |
93 | Atrazine | 2 Minutes to Better Health https://youtu.be/kcTcLbxyEr4 |
94 | How To Get Pesticides Out Of Your Life Completely (Do This ASAP!) https://healthpowerboost.com/how-to-get-pesticides-out-of-your-life-completely-do-this-asap/ |
95 | Everyday Pesticide Detox and Defense https://www.dreliaz.org/formulas/everyday-pesticide-detox-and-defense/ |
96 | 8 Detox Strategies If You’ve Been Exposed To Pesticides or Toxins https://deeprootsathome.com/detox-sprayed-insecticides/ |
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98 | Abnormal alligators and organochlorine pesticides in Lake Apopka, Florida By: Allan R. Woodward, H. Franklin Percival, R. Heath Rauschenberger, Timothy S. Gross, Kenneth G. Rice, and Roxanne Conrow Edited by: J. E. Elliott, C.A. Bishop, and C.A. Morrissey https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70007168 |
99 | Pesticides and hermaphrodite alligators in Lake Apopka https://youtu.be/zf6cL0ehDSk “Turning the alligators from male to female” Interview |
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