@reasoning logic,
Quote:Have you ever studied neuroscience?
I said I hadn't studied the subject and I haven't. But I have various books which deal with it to a greater or lesser extent. After a search I found Molecules of Emotion by Candace B Pert PhD which I had partly read a few years ago before I got bored with the lady's self-justifying style.
Anyway--I took a glance through it this morning and on page 140 there is this on the matter of mind/body connections-
Quote:For example, the receptors for sex hormones that had been unexpectedly identified in the brain and then ignored for many years were clearly the mechanism through which testosterone and estrogen , if released into the fetus during pregnancy (sic), could determine neuronal connections in the brain and permanently affect the sexual identity of the child. John Money, the famous John Hopkins psychiatrist, had shown that female fetuses exposed to testosterone like steroid hormones (aberrantly produced by their pregnant mothers' adrenal glands) were more likely to become tomboys and avoid dolls.
This is a PhD mind you. That is one awful piece of writing imo.
But it does raise questions that we might not wish to delve too far into. It does conjure up designer sexuality. It also makes the nexus Nature / Nurture more confusing because nurture is operative from conception onwards.
What can one say about the steroids used in chicken production units? I never eat chicken anyway but if I did it wouldn't be any cheap ones. Proper free range chickens here are about 15 dollars so you can easily tell the cheap ones which are also used in other products such as soups and convenience preparations. These chemicals are what some men use to produce tits.
One does have to wonder if the expression "aberrantly produced by their pregnant mothers' adrenal glands" is a convenience pass for the agriculture lobby.
Research here has claimed that estrogen in the recycled water from uphill territories coming from birth control pills via urine is the cause of the reduction in the sperm count.
There was a book by an American lady which I read a review of about 20 years ago which had a woman drinking disinfectants and bleach in order to produce freak children for her sideshow at travelling fairgrounds.
It's a complex matter. The genetic endowment might be confined to the embryo at conception and thereafter changes are caused by the environment and are thus somebody's responsibility.
The animals in the video might have been fed estrogen.
