Video viewpoint: Humans as frogs? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. claims that unsubstantiated but perceived rise in male sexual dysphoria is driven by atrazine in our water supply

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. Credit: GLAAD
Conspiracy nut Robert Kennedy, Jr. is desperately trying to convince the American voting populace that he is indeed a serious candidate, all while doing his very best to play third party spoiler and gift wrap the election to the disgraced former president Trump. Someone share with Aaron Rodgers’ hand chosen candidate that a reliance on the most bizarre Russian invented conspiracy theories won’t get the job done.

According to Kennedy, there is something in the water. In fact, the son of Bobby Kennedy, believes that the water is making Americans gay and trans, entirely feminizing a population of men in the process. Yes, the apple has fallen far from the tree. Although Kennedy is doing his very best to distance himself from the most bizarre conspiracy theories he has shared over the years, Kennedy has been conveying the following for awhile:

I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, and particularly boys – it’s probably underappreciated how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing. They’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today and many of those are endocrine disruptors. There’s atrazine throughout our water supply. Atrazine, by the way – if you in a lab put atrazine in a tank full of frogs, it will chemically castrate and forcibly feminize every frog in there. And 10% – the male frogs will turn into fully viable females able to produce viable eggs. If it’s doing that to frogs, there’s a lot of other evidence that it’s doing it to human beings as well.

Yes, a major presidential candidate just compared human beings to frogs. As you may have guessed, Kennedy does not have a medical background either, so he is hardly an authority on anything of this nature.

Shockingly, actual experts disagree with Kennedy’s studious assessment. Dr. Andrea Gore, professor of pharmacology and toxicology at University of Texas contends that sex for human beings is determined at conception and unlike frogs or other amphibians, can not be altered by the chemicals Kennedy references in his eloquent and thoughtful diatribe. According to Gore,

I don’t think people should be making statements about the relationship between environmental chemicals and changes in sexuality when there is zero evidence.

Dr. Linda Kahn, professor of pediatrics and population in health at New York University, got right to the point

Comparing humans to frogs is an apples to oranges kind of thing. Humans metabolize atrazine and excrete it from the body within 12 hours.

[Genetic Literacy Project editor’s note: RFK, Jr is wrong in endorsing claims by some environmental activist groups that atrazine or other chemicals found at micro-trace levels in drinking water — far below what the EPA or any serious oversight regulatory agency believes could cause any harm — “feminize” boys/men. The Genetic Literacy Project and other media have reported extensively on claims by the University of California-Berkely biologist gone rogue, and found his claims unconvincing (here, here). For more than 20 years, Hayes has refused to release his “data” for review by the EPA or independent scientists whose own studies do not document the feminization Hayes claims to have found. The EPA has reviewed, re-reviewed and re-re-reviewed his claims under multiple administrations and has found no evidence that atrazine is dangerous at the low levels we encounter it in the environment, and it certainly does not feminize males. In 2007, the EPA wrote a scathing 321-page review of Hayes’ claims, and found no data — Hayes’ or anyone else’s — in support of the thesis that RFK, Jr. swallowed and propagates. Since that EPA report, and refusing to accept the global science consensus, Hayes in cohort with the kooky-left wing of the environmental movement — Environmental Working Group, Center for Food Safety, Natural Resources Defense Council and other anti-chemical activists, including a tiny but vocal minority of scientists and ambulance-chasing lawyers (e.g., RFK,Jr.) —have kept this bogus claim alive partly because mysterious illnesses can be claimed and blamed on ‘chemicals’ even without hard data. — Jon Entine, GLP]

The man whose campaign began in Steve Bannon’s basement is wrong, as in factually incorrect, but like other paid Russian propagandists that won’t stop Kennedy from disseminating this dangerous propaganda to an audience of millions. These millions are eager for any disinformation that will allow them to further hurt the LGBTQ community.

Kennedy’s famous family, meanwhile fully endorse President Joe Biden for 2024 and that says a whole lot.

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Junior’s family with :coughs: President Joe Biden

A version of this article was originally posted at It’s The Russians Stupid and is reposted here with permission. Any reposting should credit both the GLP and original article.

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