As much as this is an interesting story:

Research at Rotterdam's Erasmus University found that boys whose mothers were exposed to PCBs and dioxins were more likely to play with dolls and tea sets and dress up in female clothes

Absolute hogwash.....its not chemicals that sway children to play or dress in a particular gender specific manner, but conditioning, IMO this statement alone reduces the credibility of the study....WTF..!!

[edit on 30-10-2009 by Koka]

erm...

boys who play with dolls and tea sets and dress up in female clothes?

wtf

my mom bought me he-man sword and lots of cars and crap like that.

who buys tea sets as a gift for a son?
i'm confused.
that chemicals don't affect children's brains. but parents are different story.

I really don't get how some people can look at this and have any doubts at all.
WTF? is right.

Plastic is not natural. It is completely foreign. For the eons that man (and other creatures) has been on this earth his body has not had to deal with plastics and bizarre chemicals. Our internal ecosystems are based on the natural environment as it existed all those years.

Our internal system cannot cope with the myriad chemicals that we now dowse it with through artificial fibres, things we put on our skin, things we put in our foods and on and on.

How could there not be some bad reaction? How can you sit there and defend the indefensible?

As we begin to make real progress we will be moving away from chemistry and back to a safer, more natural reality. When we finally learn to work with nature instead of against her; then we will see some amazing things.

If we can survive the disaster that is about to happen from all this chemical tinkering, that is.

It all makes sense now! I always knew that I was a Lesbian trapped in a mans' body!

As to little boys playing with dolls etc...
They are not telling us whether these children had a choice.
Playing with dolls is part of the mothering instinct.

The estrogens in our food, & water is a fact.
The gender bent acquatic life is a fact.

I have not yet seen any alarms go out about all the lawn chemicals that are so widely used. Now then have to get into the water.
And to think that some probably most areas have requirement to keep your lawn green and weed free.
I think it is time for a little common sense to rise to the surface.