"Environmental pollution has a whole host of negative effects on human health, but suggesting that water-borne pollutants are altering people's sexuality is taking it a step too far. "Regarding Ms King's comments, I'd start by suggesting she stays away from the 'expert scientific reporting' of the likes of the Daily Mail," Matt Young, a neuroscientist from the University of Nottingham tells me. "Atrazine has caused a hormonal imbalance that has made them develop into the wrong sex, in terms of their genetic constitution."In the week that's passed following King's somewhat whacky outburst, I've been speaking to experts, scientists and others in the know myself, determined to find out if we've all been laughing at her unfairly. "Atrazine, one of the most commonly used and controversial weedkillers, can turn male frogs into females," researchers claimed, according to Reuters. However, the only research the "gay water" theorists regularly cite is a University of California Berkeley study from 2010. The mayor of a small Peruvian town agrees with them, as do a bunch of weird bloggers. ![]() You're ready to put lipstick on." (I think he means it'll make you bent.) You're ready to go, you know, put together a, you know, garden of roses or something. ![]() "After you're done drinking your little juices, well, I mean, you're ready to go out and have a baby," he added, which seemed somewhat contradictory. In fact, every gay man I can think of has drunk water in their lifetime, too. Firstly, there's still no scientific explanation as to why some people are gay and some people aren't. So hold on: everything Susan King – who is standing for the Lib Dems in the West Midlands constituency of Telford – said during that online Q&A was based on science, and not a product of your bog standard religious guff? Maybe she's onto something? Got to give her the benefit of the doubt people said Einstein was a moron in his day. "I've done a lot of research connected with water quality, and that is where I gained my political and media experience." "There are a lot of feminising hormones getting into the environment and that has to be taken into consideration it's affecting people's sexuality, basically," Susan King said in a web chat with the Shropshire Star last week. Oh, and as far as we know, the Sith have not overtaken Silicon Valley.It might be 2017, but homophobia – both explicit and batshit – is still very much A Thing in British politics. Until a disintermediated network for social media is created - controlled by no single institution or organization - the tendency to ‘tweak the algorithm’ in favor of the powerful, will never go away.įor now, Jones' continues to broadcast via the Web and other channels such as Twitter. Inevitably, calls for government regulation of Silicon Valley will follow. 'Disappearing' Infowars on three key platforms will not end this cynicism: it may inadvertently increase it. The very success of the Infowars brand, is a sign of just how cynical people have become. In a healthy body politic, Infowars would never have such a receptive audience. That Infowars can be taken seriously, and regarded as a threat by Silicon Valley and Big Media, may also be a symptom of the times. In both mythology and anthropology, the crazy individual can have their uses. Which is why we published this headline, as a homage to the 'crazy-man' of Online News. A free world of ridiculous Gay frogs and crank conspiracy theories? One in which you get to make up your own mind? Or a controlled world of civic, reputable and artificially approved dialectic?īeing based in the Middle East, we sympathise with the former. It’s really about what sort of internet and what sort of world, you want to live in. What just happened to Infowars is bigger than any single publisher - and bigger than Alex Jones. The strange success of InfoWars as a publishing entity highlights just how badly traditional media is performing. If Silicon Valley can ban crank networks such as Infowars today, there is nothing to stop them banning Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, a Malcolm X or a Donald Trump, in the future. The same media that have attacked Infowars, have labelled individuals such as PewdiePie (a gamer), Jordan Peterson (a philosopher) and Tim Pool (a multimedia journalist) as either ‘alt-right,’ dangerous or undesirable. ![]() Yet should journalists in mainstream media, or Silicon Valley titans, decide who should be exommunciated from the Internet? Some of these arguments are appropriate and valid.
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