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		david38 on Feb 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China promotes education drive to make boys more '... Unrelated to the article, but let’s not forget that leeching of estrogen into the ecosystem. This is a real thing and very measurable by ecologists. The US Army also tests such things as sperm count and has seen a rapid decline. So the real solution is less pollution :)

AnimalMuppet on Feb 4, 2021 [–]

Hmm. Sudden off-topic thought: I regularly hear about the decline in violent crime, and hear it attributed to the end of leaded gasoline. Could it be due to falling sperm count instead (or due to the cause of the falling count)?

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