> The chemicals present a serious risk to infants because they likely interfere with hormones that are critical to newborns’ proper development, and have been found to be harmful at very low levels of exposure. About 92% of 50 samples were contaminated with at least one of the anti-microbials or plasticizers for which researchers checked.
If they were that significantly harmful it would be massively obvious at that level of prevalence.
Do you mean potentially showing up as a global decline in fertility rates and multi-generational bioaccumulation of these compounds, threatening to destroy the foundational structure of modern civilization (population growth)?
Which is not to say that it's interfering with fertility rates by making partners less potent/fertile, because, presumably, we would have heard about a significant increase in failures to conceive. Or is your implication that it has affected sex drive?
My implication is that there are indeed large scale changes that are totally concordant with large scale endocrine disruption.
Desire to mate, sperm count and quality, rising obesity, falling testosterone, increases in testicular, prostate, and breast cancer, increases in autism and attention disorders, etc. etc.
It's ridiculous to say that we know these aren't causing problems because "we haven't seen problems." We do indeed see very, very big problems population-wide that are similar to what we see in the lab when poisoning mammals with these chemicals.
Presumably none of these problems is caused exclusively by EDCs, and potentially none of them are caused by EDCs at all. But there are plenty of changes worth investigating.
If they were that significantly harmful it would be massively obvious at that level of prevalence.