Sperm count drop 'may lead to human extinction'

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KillerIndica

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Humans are a scourge on the planet. We are pestilence. We are death. Death to everything on the planet.

Luckily, humanity has 40 years left, and the planet will belong to predator and prey, again. Between Fukushima and plain ol' climate change, 30-40 years left, no more.

With luck, the universe will learn a lesson from this failed experiment and never let another species be able to think, again. Thinking is the enemy of life.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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KillerIndica said:
Humans are a scourge on the planet. We are pestilence. We are death. Death to everything on the planet.

Luckily, humanity has 40 years left, and the planet will belong to predator and prey, again. Between Fukushima and plain ol' climate change, 30-40 years left, no more.

With luck, the universe will learn a lesson from this failed experiment and never let another species be able to think, again. Thinking is the enemy of life.
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The only way humanity will end in 40 years is through massive thermonuclear exchange.

That's my bet. After all, we can't just go on spending over half a trillion dollars a year on war toys and NOT use them, right?
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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tampee said:
The homeless are their for a reason they make more than enough money panhandling. I sold drugs in NYC and guess who the #1 customers are? Some of them don't even have shoes but they have $20 for drugs meanwhile I bought a nice pair of sneakers for $25 on clearance just a few days ago. :)

Plight of the homeless please, some people just like being beggars.
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I think you should be homeless for 90 days.

If it's so easy that people prefer it, it should be a cakewalk, right?
 
tampee

tampee

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ttystikk said:
I think you should be homeless for 90 days.

If it's so easy that people prefer it, it should be a cakewalk, right?
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I wouldn't be homeless I'm not a junky. I might throw up a military tent, hunt, fish and gather for 90 days if you want to tend to my farm for 90 days. :bigjoint:

I made all my money on my own didn't have help from anyone their is no excuse to be homeless.
 
Fogdog

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vostok said:

Humans could become extinct if sperm counts in men continue to fall at current rates, a doctor has warned.

Researchers assessing the results of nearly 200 studies say sperm counts among men from North America,

Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years.

Some experts are sceptical of the Human Reproduction Update findings.

But lead researcher Dr Hagai Levine said he was "very worried" about what might happen in the future.

The assessment, one of the largest ever undertaken, brings together the results of 185

studies between 1973 and 2011.

Dr Levine, an epidemiologist, told the BBC that if the trend continued humans would become extinct.

Decline rate 'increasing'
"If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and

the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future," he said.

"Eventually we may have a problem, and with reproduction in general,

and it may be the extinction of the human species."

Scientists not involved in the study have praised the quality of the research but say

that it may be premature to come to such a conclusion.

Dr Levine, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, found a 52.4% decline in sperm concentration,

and a 59.3% decline in total sperm count in men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

The study also indicates the rate of decline among men living in these countries is

continuing and possibly even increasing.

Previous research 'flawed'
In contrast, no significant decline was seen in South America, Asia and Africa, but the researchers point out

that far fewer studies have been conducted on these continents. However, Dr Levine is concerned that

eventually sperm counts could fall in these places too.

Many previous studies have indicated similar sharp declines in sperm count in developed economies,

but sceptics say that a large proportion of them have been flawed.

Some have investigated a relatively small number of men, or included only men who attend fertility clinics

and are, in any case, more likely to have low sperm counts.

There is also concern that studies that claim to show a decline in sperm counts are more likely to

get published in scientific journals than those that do not.


Another difficulty is that early methods of counting sperm may have overestimated the true count.

Taken together these factors may have created a false view of falling sperm counts.

But the researchers claim to have accounted for some of these deficiencies, leaving some doubters,

such as Prof Allan Pacey of Sheffield University, less skeptical.

He said: "I've never been particularly convinced by the many studies published so far claiming that human

sperm counts have declined in the recent past."

"However, the study today by Dr Levine and his colleagues deals head-on with many of

the deficiencies of previous studies."

Smoking and obesity
But Prof Pacey believes that although the new study has reduced the possibility of errors it does

not entirely remove them. So, he says, the results should be treated with caution.

"The debate has not yet been resolved and there is clearly much work still to be done.

"However, the paper does represent a step forward in the clarity of the data which might

ultimately allow us to define better studies to examine this issue."

There is no clear evidence for the reason for this apparent decrease. But it has been linked with

exposure to chemicals used in pesticides and plastics, obesity, smoking, stress, diet,

and even watching too much TV.

Dr Levine says that there is an urgent need to find out why sperm counts are decreasing and to find

ways of reversing the trend.

"We must take action - for example, better regulation of man-made chemicals -

and we must continue our efforts on tackling smoking and obesity."

(https://academic.oup.com/DocumentLibrary/humupd/PR/dmx022_final.pdf)
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I can see an upside to this.

"Honey, doctor says my sperm count is low. We'll need to have a lot of sex to make that baby we both want".
 
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