Scientist Tyrone Haynes Uncovered The Herbicide Atrazine Feminizes Males
Maybe it is not God after all who feminizes males? Scientist Tyrone Haynes had come under fire because his research had shown the atrazine herbicide had harmful effects on the endocrine system and interfered with normal male development. Tyrone Haynes was hired by a company in 1997 that later become agribusiness giant Syngenta to study the effects of its atrazine herbicide.
Haynes’ prior studies on the effect of hormones and chemicals that could interfere with hormones on the development of amphibians prompted the manufacturer of atrazine to hire him to study its effects on frogs. Haynes uncovered atrazine caused sexual abnormalities in frogs and his research indicated it could cause the same abnormalities in humans.
Atrazine was Syngenta’s cash cow because it was used to control weed growth on half the corn crops in the United States (0:27), so Syngenta was not pleased with his findings.
Haynes found atrazine caused male frogs to turn into females and to develop eggs (2:28). He also found that testosterone wasn’t being produced at normal levels (3:33). The frogs became chemically castrated, developed ovaries and eggs, and some frogs exhibited homosexual behavior by preferring to mate with other male frogs (3:49).
Other independent studies had found atrazine caused sexual problems in fish, birds, and mammals (8:57). A human study found male babies exposed to atrazine in the womb developed abnormal genitals and other studies have shown sperm counts diminished in human males exposed to atrazine (16:33). Human males used the same hormones that other species used for reproduction so atrazine was identified as a problem for male’s healthy living across the board.
