SNEAKO - Alex Jones Is NOT Crazy!

00:00:00.000 I want to watch gay frogs, a deep dive.

00:00:02.480 Pesticide information, this is Meredith, can I help you?

00:00:05.300 Yeah, I have some questions about atrazine, a pesticide.

00:00:09.540 Okay.

00:00:10.720 Um, are they putting chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay?

00:00:18.420 Is this a prank call?

00:00:20.540 No.

00:00:22.340 O.

00:00:23.240 Gay.

00:00:24.440 Aye.

00:00:26.280 Hey, it's been a while.

00:00:28.040 If you follow me on Twitter, you might know that a few months ago, I tweeted a sneak peek of what I've been working on.

00:00:34.700 That's right, gay frogs.

00:00:37.320 Why have I spent the last three months of my life researching gay frogs, you ask?

00:00:40.860 Well, I love it when silly bullshit ends up being true.

00:00:44.360 So was Alex Jones right about gay frogs?

00:00:47.180 That's what we're going to investigate in this video here.

00:00:49.420 So don't just pay attention for when he gets canceled, for when he's in court, for when he makes one mistake,

00:00:53.420 for when you investigate your whole life

00:00:56.240 or when you put your whole life

00:00:57.600 into investigating conspiracy theories

00:00:59.720 and to try to uncover the truth,

00:01:01.020 they're going to be wrong once in a while.

00:01:02.500 He was wrong and now the only thing

00:01:03.860 that the bots focus on

00:01:04.940 is the one time he's in court,

00:01:06.560 is the one time he's under pressure

00:01:07.680 because when you're speaking the truth,

00:01:09.160 it makes them uncomfortable

00:01:09.840 and they attack the person

00:01:11.180 instead of the system.

00:01:12.300 So the fact that he was right

00:01:13.660 about frogs being gay

00:01:14.840 should wake you up.

00:01:16.600 Why the fuck is this conspiracy true?

00:01:23.420 wake up wake up wake up snap out of it snap out of it you have been under cult brainwashing

00:01:37.420 come out of it you've got to get moving you've got to get aggressive you've got to get mad

00:01:43.260 you've got to get focused you've got to get crazed you got to get motivated man we are under attack

00:01:50.660 The date was October 16th, 2015.

00:01:54.300 While ranting about a globalist takeover and leftist psyops,

00:01:58.320 Alex Jones rapidly listed off ways in which he believes we are under chemical and biological attack.

00:02:04.200 Everything they give us is to hurt us.

00:02:06.360 Shock claim, world's on the brink of 50-year ice age.

00:02:09.700 Scientists claim, zapping brains with magnets can treat belief in God.

00:02:14.180 Yeah, so can giving somebody a lobotomy.

00:02:15.860 did parallel universe open up 100 sea floating city filmed in skies above china that's mainstream

00:02:22.580 news was videotaped and it's clearly a giant 500 yard tall wide hologram

00:02:28.760 chat drink bottled water drink good bottled water don't drink desani desani's bottled tap water

00:02:34.840 don't drink that water coming out of the sink that the government is trying to tell you

00:02:38.420 new york city's encouraging that commercials now saying drink new york city tap water i never walk

00:02:43.700 outside without drinking my new york city tap water it's disgusting they are trying to fucking

00:02:50.040 make you weaker they're turning the frogs gay with the water why would you want to drink that

00:02:53.600 why does the government have commercials for tap water think about it what the hell are they selling

00:02:57.740 how are they profiting off of that yeah there it is the gay bomb look it up for yourself i mean this

00:03:04.380 is what what do you think tap water is it's a gay bomb baby and i'm not saying people didn't

00:03:11.080 naturally have homosexual feelings i'm not even getting into it quite frankly i mean give me a

00:03:15.780 break you think i'm like shocked by it so i'm up here bashing it because i don't like gay people

00:03:21.360 i don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay you sound

00:03:26.640 homophobic and misogynist and problematic why would you say that you're triggering me what

00:03:31.700 do you hate me or something do you understand that serious crap i'm sick of being social

00:03:39.440 engineer and it's not funny something that struck me it's funny the way he's acting but i understand

00:03:44.320 his anger he's been trying to uncover the truth for years and years and years and years and the

00:03:48.220 mainstream media just keep calling him a liar they keep saying he's putting on an act they keep

00:03:51.480 calling him a character they say he's a grifter when he's trying to wake you up i understand the

00:03:56.520 frustration while watching the full broadcast was that although it's the quote it's a gay bomb

00:04:01.420 you turn to the frogs gay oh it's not fucking funny that alex jones is most known for he spends

00:04:06.720 no more than 10 seconds on the topic of gay frogs. He just sort of peppers it into his rant and moves

00:04:11.960 on without offering any sort of explanation. I guess that's why it's so memorable. Because it's

00:04:17.480 baffling how angry he gets, and it just seems to come out of nowhere. If I was going to be able to

00:04:22.500 find out whether or not he's right about chemicals in the water turning frogs gay,

00:04:26.860 then I needed more context. Luckily, he clarified his statement to vine sensation Logan Paul.

00:04:32.400 Now, is this the gay frog that you were talking about?

00:04:34.880 the reason logan paul starts with an l about no this is not the atrazine gay frogs by the way you

00:04:39.540 pull up major universities folks and i think it's gay people the point is is that atrazine

00:04:43.700 artificially it demasculates men it over feminizes women uh and causes cancer and where is that found

00:04:51.040 where is the also birth control birth control is the devil a lot of what they promote as good and

00:04:55.660 is woke and his birth it's it's destroying you it's meant to fuck with your hormones

00:05:00.740 the uh whatever the food the water everything you're saying atrazine is basically in all of

00:05:07.600 our tap water it's in everything we're just inundated so you don't believe me don't believe

00:05:11.540 me i was covering like 10 years ago uh a berkeley study and then a south african study and a ut

00:05:19.380 study going wow look almost all the frogs don't now want females they want to have sex with males

00:05:25.400 who don't produce eggs so that frogs are dying and i said it's making the freaking frogs gay

00:05:29.660 So the chemical that Alex Jones was referring to is called atrazine.

00:05:33.480 It's used mostly on cornfields to eradicate broadleaves.

00:05:36.880 Atrazine gets into the drinking water through agricultural runoff.

00:05:40.440 An estimated 33 million Americans have been exposed to atrazine through their taps,

00:05:44.680 according to data from water systems nationwide.

00:05:47.740 In 2003, it was banned in the European Union.

00:05:50.480 A wide range of studies have identified atrazine as a possible human carcinogen

00:05:54.480 and an endocrine disruptor.

00:05:56.000 In frogs, it's been associated with increased estrogen production,

00:05:59.660 decreased fertility, gonadal deformities, altered sex ratios, complete sex reversal, and hermaphroditism.

00:06:06.940 In 2002, a Berkeley endocrinologist named Dr. Tyrone Hayes published a study in the

00:06:11.980 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences called

00:06:14.680 Hermaphroditic Damascinalized Frogs After Exposure to the Herbicide Atrazine

00:06:19.680 at Low Ecologically Relevant Doses.

00:06:22.500 Here's a clip I found of Dr. Tyrone Hayes explaining his work.

00:06:25.540 Hayes is testing the effects of chemicals like atrazine, a common herbicide.

00:06:30.960 We have a whole family of animals where we've eliminated the female chromosome.

00:06:35.580 Specimen 01.

00:06:38.020 These animals that we know are genetic males have been exposed to atrazine.

00:06:41.620 That looks like a toy. Is that a real...

00:06:43.020 ...the entire life.

00:06:44.480 And many of these genetic males now are turning into females.

00:06:49.460 I mean, pretty ironic with that earring, but...

00:06:51.640 BUMBOKA!

00:06:52.720 Trans frogs, man. Sneak eat the frogs.

00:06:54.740 You can see he's got eggs that kind of look like they're in a sack.

00:06:57.880 These are actually yoked eggs ready to be laid.

00:07:01.380 What's happening is you're skewing sex ratios.

00:07:04.200 You can get genetic bottlenecking, which can cause crashes.

00:07:07.260 And quite frankly, if you're a genetic male, it'd be nice if you're developed as a genetic male.

00:07:11.980 And now we have a chemical very common in the environment that's effectively sex reversing animals.

00:07:16.780 So does atrazine turn frogs gay?

00:07:19.540 Honestly, there's not much evidence that it does.

00:07:22.260 Look, here's the thing.

00:07:23.440 I'm going to be honest with you.

00:07:26.000 Maybe he's just crazy, Chad.

00:07:27.240 Actually, no, I think he's just a wild conspiracy theorist.

00:07:29.540 I think he's homophobic and transphobic and misogynist.

00:07:32.920 I'm kind of retarded.

00:07:35.500 Although Hayes has reported such findings,

00:07:37.500 he's never published any research about gay frogs.

00:07:40.580 Instead of gay frogs, his published research shows that low doses of atrazine

00:07:44.180 can cause feminization of male frogs.

00:07:46.880 Feminization refers to hermaphroditism, intersex, full sex reversal,

00:07:51.380 and eggs inside of testes.

00:07:53.320 Tyrone Hayes is known for studying the endocrine-disrupting effects of atrazine,

00:07:57.280 especially the feminizing and chemically castrating effects.

00:08:00.540 He has published his peer-reviewed research to top-rated journals for decades now,

00:08:04.260 and is a well-respected scientist and professor.

00:08:06.920 So why not believe him?

00:08:08.660 Well, that's because on Wikipedia, it says that no one has been able to replicate his work.

00:08:13.040 Additionally, it says that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

00:08:16.060 as well as the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority,

00:08:19.700 reviewed his work and concluded that atrazine doesn't negatively impact amphibians.

00:08:24.620 Well, Tyrone Hayes had research that showed that, like, it feminizes frogs,

00:08:30.780 so he was finding intersex frogs, and, um...

00:08:34.240 Yeah, I'm familiar with his research, actually, but it was never able to be...

00:08:36.780 Um, actually, maybe that's just how the frog identifies.

00:08:42.400 Maybe that's the frog's truth, and you're not accepting it.

00:08:46.940 Okay?

00:08:49.700 Now, this seems strange to me.

00:09:12.260 From what I knew from my own research, there are plenty of studies showing that atrazine

00:09:16.260 does in fact have adverse effects on amphibians.

00:09:19.400 So is it possible that these two regulatory agencies are wrong?

00:09:23.480 To find out more, I contacted three scientists,

00:09:26.400 all of whom were on the EPA's scientific advisory panel during the risk assessment of atrazine.

00:09:31.260 Their names are Daniel Schlenk.

00:09:33.180 I had a different guy call me up on the island and say,

00:09:36.700 Dude, am I going to turn a...

00:09:39.260 Dude, literally, dude? Are the frogs gay?

00:09:41.160 You a girl?

00:09:42.420 Jason Rohr.

00:09:44.000 I just happened to focus in on atrazine early in my career,

00:09:48.880 because it regularly produced results that were different from the traits of animals in my control treatments.

00:09:58.560 And David Skelly.

00:10:00.020 So, through your own field studies, you found hermaphroditic frogs in suburbia, right?

00:10:07.600 Oh, yeah.

00:10:08.700 In our meta-analysis, I believe that we did find support.

00:10:13.720 It just wasn't always consistent.

00:10:14.880 consistent, but that was also almost certainly a function of the fact that the

00:10:20.640 hematization results drew much, much more attention from Syngenta. Syngenta

00:10:27.360 wasn't a fan of Tyrone, Tyrone wasn't a fan of Syngenta, and so I think there was

00:10:31.840 a lot more effort being put by Syngenta to come up with counter examples to

00:10:38.160 Tyrone's studies. There is, there are data suggesting that atrazine may have

00:10:43.680 effects on reproductive organs humans and so frogs are not humans but they are vertebrates they have

00:10:51.040 a lot of um similar traits as humans not all but there are some similar traits and he's dancing

00:10:57.520 around it i think syngenta was very worried that um there might be concerns that humans might have

00:11:07.040 offspring that either have both types of gonads ovaries and testes or that their male offspring

00:11:17.440 would have female traits and i think that's a scary thing for a lot of parents and he knows

00:11:24.480 the truth and he's just really trying to play it safe like a politician unquestionably something

00:11:29.120 that Sinventa would want to avoid.

00:11:32.920 Do I think that

00:11:34.400 Jena was concerned about the PR outfall?

00:11:38.100 I cannot tell you,

00:11:39.980 but I can tell you what they did,

00:11:41.560 and what they did was

00:11:42.680 they tried to

00:11:45.500 really destroy his career, in my opinion.

00:11:47.820 So they were afraid.

00:11:50.480 And I think that was really wrong.

00:11:52.780 It totally affected the way he did science.

00:11:54.520 It totally affected his lab.

00:11:56.540 I mean, I don't think he took

00:11:57.640 any graduate students after that because he was afraid for what that would do to their careers

00:12:03.440 because they came out of his lab. I mean, it's very common for industry to fight back on results

00:12:11.460 that show something damaging. In this video, I'm going to explain to you why the EPA's conclusion

00:12:16.820 that atrazine has no adverse effects is purposely misleading. But first, let's start from the

00:12:22.380 beginning. The year was 1997, and Tyrone Hayes was kind of a hotshot. After developing a screening

00:12:28.220 test which detected hormonal disruption, his work caught the eyes of Sygenta, who contracted his

00:12:33.760 laboratory through a financial conduit called EcoRisk, to examine the endocrine-disrupting

00:12:38.520 effects of atrazine on amphibians. After running some experiments, Tyrone Hayes found that atrazine

00:12:43.860 could disrupt the sexual development of frogs, starting at doses as low as 0.1 parts per billion.

00:12:48.960 So at any rate, we did some studies where we just exposed frogs to ecologically relevant,

00:12:53.720 to levels of atrazine that you might find in the environment.

00:12:56.740 And we literally just asked, our hypothesis was, does it do anything?

00:13:01.980 In laboratory studies, Hayes observed reduced larynxes in 80% of male frogs.

00:13:06.980 This is the craziest that I've ever heard, and it's true.

00:13:10.000 And it just proves the fact that why is the government putting this in the water?

00:13:13.480 Why are they trying to turn us gay?

00:13:15.440 That's what this proves.

00:13:16.740 20% of them developed into hermaphrodites

00:13:20.420 With both testes and ovaries

00:13:21.840 Here's testes

00:13:23.740 Which males should have

00:13:25.920 And this guy's got some ovaries

00:13:27.880 He's got another large testes

00:13:29.580 He's got some more ovaries

00:13:30.820 There's a whole party going on in there

00:13:32.420 He ain't even got to leave the house

00:13:34.460 But that's not normal

00:13:37.680 All I mean is that frogs are not naturally hermaphroditic

00:13:40.800 And people get confused

00:13:42.560 Somebody always asks me

00:13:44.160 Aren't frogs naturally hermaphroditic?

00:13:45.840 Who knows where that comes from?

00:13:46.740 When Hayes shared his work with Sagenta, he says that they tried to stall his progress

00:14:10.360 and bury his results.

00:14:12.020 According to him, they cut his funding, brought in statisticians to nitpick his data, refused

00:14:16.620 to share his research with the EPA,

00:14:18.680 and frequently said that there needed to be further testing.

00:14:21.460 And then it seemed like they were trying

00:14:23.260 to slow down the progress,

00:14:25.300 because with each set of samples that we analyzed,

00:14:28.500 the problem got...

00:14:29.340 He looked like he was drinking a lot of that water.

00:14:30.440 I ain't gonna lie about it, but that water,

00:14:31.940 you got some cool drip, even though the fingernails,

00:14:34.040 the earrings, shit like that,

00:14:35.400 you were drinking a lot of tap water, decent drip.

00:14:37.500 Of course, it didn't get better.

00:14:40.420 And then eventually...

00:14:43.480 Chad, W-O drip, tell me.

00:14:44.920 I'm saying W drip.

00:14:45.720 I know it's different, you guys, but yeah, okay, you do the thing.

00:14:47.440 Then they asked me to manipulate the data in ways that were inappropriate

00:14:51.260 to try to make it go away, and at that point I quit.

00:14:55.600 At that point I left the contract.

00:14:57.480 He claims that Sagenta offered him $2 million to stay

00:15:00.820 and conduct his research in private, but that he refused.

00:15:04.720 After collecting funding, Hayes conducted studies in his lab and on the field.

00:15:08.940 Two years later, he published his work in two prestigious journals,

00:15:12.500 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature.

00:15:15.720 Sagento Crop Protection retaliated by going into full damage control mode.

00:15:20.480 They funded studies and put out a press release claiming that

00:15:23.340 three separate studies by university scientists have failed to replicate his work.

00:15:27.880 At the same time, there were other studies being published

00:15:30.080 which backed up Hayes' findings that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor.

00:15:34.080 In 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would conduct a risk assessment

00:15:38.780 to assess atrazine's eligibility for re-registration.

00:15:41.760 This took place around the same time that Tyrone Hayes published his research.

00:15:45.720 Under a consent decree issued in court by the Natural Resources Defense Council,

00:15:49.980 the EPA was required to review the available literature on atrazine's effects on amphibians

00:15:54.620 and to convene a scientific advisory panel made up of independent scientists

00:15:58.740 to help evaluate and peer-review studies.

00:16:01.660 The EPA's risk assessment was largely focused on one question,

00:16:04.960 at what concentrations does atrazine have adverse effects to amphibian gonadal development,

00:16:09.800 and is it below ecologically relevant levels?

00:16:12.120 There were two official risk assessments of atrazine's effects on amphibians in total,

00:16:17.020 one in 2003 and the final one in 2007. During both of these risk assessments, the EPA did

00:16:23.000 everything in its power to aid the primary registrant of atrazine, Sygenta, in keeping

00:16:28.060 atrazine on the market. Let me explain how. During the first risk assessment in 2003,

00:16:33.520 the EPA's review wasn't comprehensive. It was limited to 17 studies in total. Out of those 17

00:16:39.380 studies, 12 of them were funded by Sagenta, and only two of them found no adverse effects.

00:16:45.300 After reviewing these studies, the EPA concluded that although there is sufficient evidence to

00:16:49.660 formulate a hypothesis that atrazine exposure may impact gonadal development of mothidians,

00:16:54.860 there is currently insufficient data to confirm or refute the hypothesis.

00:16:59.900 Okay, so here's where the fuckery starts. Then the EPA said that they required additional studies,

00:17:04.740 especially one that could replicate Tyrone Hayes' research.

00:17:08.200 And guess who they relied on to conduct these studies?

00:17:11.060 So much for matrazine.

00:17:11.920 Well, Sygenta Crop Protection, of course.

00:17:14.160 Not only was Sygenta responsible for testing its own product,

00:17:17.700 it also put together a list of good laboratory practices,

00:17:20.700 which all studies subsequently had to follow in order to be considered by the EPA.

00:17:25.140 The EPA even admits in its 2007 amphibian white paper

00:17:28.640 that it was Sygenta who provided the agency

00:17:31.100 with the signed and finalized version of this-

00:17:33.620 This is why you can't believe a bunch of these studies and everything.

00:17:35.840 Well, where does the science go to back it up?

00:17:37.940 This is proof that all science and all data can be manipulated very easily.

00:17:41.280 ...study protocol.

00:17:42.320 Sure, the EPA made decisions here and there,

00:17:44.600 but they pretty much just left it up to Sagenta

00:17:46.680 to create these test protocols based on their recommendations.

00:17:50.400 This occurred after a former tobacco lobbyist

00:17:52.580 and anti-regulation czar named Jim Tozzi

00:17:55.040 used a two-sentence rider called the Data Quality Act,

00:17:58.500 which he authored, by the way,

00:17:59.940 And he used it to throw a wrench into the EPA's regulatory process of atrazine.

00:18:04.980 The Data Quality Act is often used by special interest groups to challenge the legitimacy of scientific studies, which is exactly what happened in the case of atrazine.

00:18:13.780 Citing the Data Quality Act, Toze petitioned the EPA saying two things.

00:18:18.260 One, that they don't have validated test methods for determining whether or not atrazine causes endocrine destruction.

00:18:24.620 Two, he wrongly argued that the findings that atrazine caused endocrine effects

00:18:28.400 had not been reproduced in any other studies.

00:18:30.980 Anyway, so, the EPA then told Sagenta to create the testing methods

00:18:34.580 and to conduct their own studies.

00:18:36.320 After running two parallel tests and submitting them as one study,

00:18:39.880 Sagenta returned to the EPA with the results.

00:18:42.400 And lo and behold, Sagenta found that atrazine had no...

00:18:45.920 Atrazine is perfect for you!

00:18:47.680 ...diverse effects.

00:18:49.160 Because Sagenta collaborated with the EPA

00:18:51.520 in designing the good laboratory practice protocols

00:18:53.920 for assessing hormonal disruption in frogs,

00:18:56.640 the EPA then said that every study has to follow those protocols,

00:19:00.960 and any study that doesn't is going to be thrown out.

00:19:03.680 The Environmental Protection Agency then threw out every single study in the open literature

00:19:08.720 because they did not meet those good laboratory practice protocols.

00:19:12.460 Even studies conducted before the good laboratory practice guidelines were set by Sygenta

00:19:16.800 were retroactively considered to be either qualitative or invalid by the EPA.

00:19:22.600 That's 36 studies in total, which suddenly don't meet the criteria to be considered robust enough to be used to make a regulatory decision.

00:19:35.960 You gotta really make your own conclusions now. You gotta look at cross-examine, you have to look at different sources, you gotta look at different scientists, because look how easy it is for them to manipulate all of it.

00:19:45.220 And the only reason they weren't considered robust enough is because they didn't follow these protocols made by Sygenta.

00:19:52.240 So in the end, before the EPA made their conclusion in 2007,

00:19:56.600 only one study remained that was considered to be quantitative and illegible to be the basis of a regulatory decision.

00:20:03.960 And that study was funded by Sygenta Croft Protection.

00:20:08.140 What we could talk about for a minute is that might be helpful, though, in good laboratory practice business.

00:20:12.780 Yeah.

00:20:14.060 So explain that.

00:20:16.400 Well, I evidently don't do good laboratory practice.

00:20:21.180 What it's allowed industry and kind of naysayer people to say is, well, they don't do good laboratory work.

00:20:28.760 You know, we do.

00:20:31.560 It's a misnomer, right?

00:20:33.960 It's a misnomer.

00:20:36.600 To call it good laboratory practices when it's just checks and balances, basically.

00:20:42.920 So they don't...

00:20:44.600 Yeah, it's being used to tar and feather people

00:20:48.480 who don't have the money to do the work the way that industry does.

00:20:55.580 But the fact of the matter is that, you know,

00:20:58.460 you can do everything that it says in a good laboratory practice manual

00:21:03.340 and have garbage signs.

00:21:05.740 So on the basis of a single Sagenta-funded study,

00:21:08.300 which was a complete outlier finding virtually no adverse effects,

00:21:12.060 even at high doses of atrazine, the EPA concluded in 2007 that atrazine causes no adverse effects

00:21:18.660 on frogs and that no additional testing was warranted to address the issue. EPA convened

00:21:24.040 a scientific advisory panel made up of independent experts to help them form a conclusion. However,

00:21:29.800 the EPA didn't really have to accept their advice, and a lot of their advice was not even considered.

00:21:35.480 In 2016, the EPA released a draft of their refined ecological risk assessment for atrazine.

00:21:41.680 Unlike in 2007, where their conclusion was formed on the basis of a single Sygenta-funded study,

00:21:47.600 in 2016, they included 55 studies from the open literature that were previously designated as

00:21:52.760 qualitative and therefore dismissed. Based on a weight of evidence analysis, which included these

00:21:57.700 studies, they concluded that atrazine has possible risk to the metamorphosis, growth, and sexual

00:22:03.120 development of amphibians. So at least they eventually acknowledged it. Yet on their website,

00:22:08.460 it still says that atrazine has no adverse effect.

00:22:11.280 Stop the caps!

00:22:12.860 Same goes for Sagenta,

00:22:14.160 who still touts the EPA's 2007 conclusion

00:22:16.700 a scientific fact.

00:22:18.460 In 2007, they determined a closed discussion.

00:22:21.820 Like, we're not going to look into it anymore.

00:22:24.580 Yeah.

00:22:25.080 So, I mean...

00:22:26.020 I heard about that.

00:22:26.860 In that case, it just seems like...

00:22:29.540 Yeah, I was not very happy there.

00:22:33.140 So.

00:22:34.240 I disagree with that approach to the...

00:22:37.120 That's my opinion on that.

00:22:40.260 In fact, I was a little bit upset that they didn't adhere to our recommendation

00:22:44.820 to do multiple species and include the weight of evidence.

00:22:49.300 But, you know, we're there to provide advice.

00:22:52.280 They're there to make the decision.

00:22:53.900 I remember the results very well.

00:22:56.060 I don't think anybody on the panel, certainly I wasn't very happy with the idea

00:23:00.140 that EPA has funded the studies themselves and done them.

00:23:04.360 You know, BBA has a beautiful laboratory in Duluth where they do exposure studies.

00:23:12.140 I have no idea why, you know, in aquatic systems.

00:23:15.720 I know some of the people who work there.

00:23:17.520 I don't know why on earth they didn't have those people do that work.

00:23:22.460 I have nothing to tell you.

00:23:24.540 I don't get it.

00:23:26.500 There is no valid reason.

00:23:27.480 It didn't make sense.

00:23:28.460 And, you know, it felt absolutely wrong that they had done it this way.

00:23:36.460 Is it a common practice for the EPA to require multiple labs to replicate the findings of a single lab?

00:23:44.460 I would say no, because it only used a single Syngenta-funded study to evaluate the safety of atrazine.

00:23:55.460 if they want to apply that policy to tyrone then think about it lady on the bot says fuck tyrone

00:24:03.400 it should be evenly applied to the syngenta study and they should have had an independent third

00:24:09.120 party evaluate whether they could replicate the findings of syngenta so i don't know the answer

00:24:15.000 definitively uh but if they're going to have that be a policy i'm not saying that that's not my wi-fi

00:24:20.220 that's his shitty zoom call susan's trying to block it from him giving out this information

00:24:24.340 It shouldn't be. I think it would be a reasonable policy. It needs to be evenly applied to industry as well as to academics.

00:24:39.280 One more time.

00:24:41.240 Industry as well as to academics.

00:24:48.740 Basically, he's uncomfortably saying that they're lying.

00:24:54.340 So we find out, and this is happening to you, so you're aware of it, where it becomes more

00:25:00.440 broadly known is in a lawsuit, a class action suit against Syngenta in 2012, which they

00:25:07.260 eventually settle for over $100 million with communities in Illinois over water.

00:25:12.500 But in that process, in the discovery process, the notes of Syngenta and their records become

00:25:18.100 public and we find there that they had written down and had records.

00:25:23.320 And I was going through some of that.

00:25:25.080 And it says they made a list of ways to discredit you.

00:25:28.520 And those lists included have your work audited, ask journals to retract your articles.

00:25:35.300 And this is all.

00:25:36.020 They probably called them crazy too, right?

00:25:37.620 Their language.

00:25:38.700 Set trap to entice him to sue.

00:25:40.380 That's my favorite.

00:25:41.040 Set a trap.

00:25:41.820 Who writes it down, right?

00:25:43.040 Set a trap.

00:25:43.900 Set a trap.

00:25:44.960 It's like Bugs Bunny Road.

00:25:46.020 No one will ever read this.

00:25:48.720 Investigate your funding and even investigate your wife.

00:25:51.860 Jesus Christ, bro.

00:25:53.320 In 2011, Sygenta's internal documents were released by the Madison County Circuit Court

00:25:58.020 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by investigative journalist Claire Howard.

00:26:03.560 These documents showed that Sygenta discussed ways...

00:26:06.000 Chad, how are people not having their minds blown by this information?

00:26:09.760 We look at the same mainstream news every day.

00:26:12.340 American water makes you gay!

00:26:16.040 The tap water makes you gay!

00:26:19.960 Literally!

00:26:22.020 What?

00:26:23.320 Did you hear that? You heard that? Susan? How is this not making everybody run around

00:26:30.520 screaming right now going, I'm gay! I'm gay! The water makes you gay!

00:26:42.760 Ways to destroy Tyrone Hayes' career and credibility. Strategies included,

00:26:47.780 investigate his wife, tap his phone calls, set him up.

00:26:51.040 Just like they did with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, they just start aggressively investigating people who start revealing the truth.

00:26:56.420 Purchase Tyrone Hayes as a search word on the internet, and direct searches to their own marketing materials,

00:27:01.700 offer him unlimited research funds, and the commissioning of a psychiatric profile on Hayes,

00:27:06.560 which refers to Hayes as a paranoid schizo and narcissist.

00:27:09.520 There you go, I call the chat, a paranoid schizo narcissist.

00:27:14.040 every time people start revealing the truth

00:27:16.900 they label you as a narcissistic

00:27:18.800 crazy, misogynistic

00:27:20.420 therapeutic, all these fucking

00:27:22.760 nonsense words, they go at your mental

00:27:24.820 health instead of the info that you're trying

00:27:26.740 to spread, so pay attention

00:27:28.360 when you get, people start labeling these basic

00:27:30.840 ass words, these low level bot

00:27:32.740 words to people who are exposing the truth

00:27:34.960 wake the fuck up

00:27:36.260 a paranoid schizo

00:27:38.620 narcissist, because he's studying

00:27:40.880 because he's

00:27:42.740 exposing the lies in science? Fuck, bro, it's so repetitive over and over again in history,

00:27:49.940 and all the fucking bots play along to this game. Unknowingly, being servants of lies.

00:27:55.940 Notes from one memo reads, if T.H., Tyrone Hayes, is involved in a scandal, the enviros will drop

00:28:02.560 him. Another note read, can prevent sighting of Tyrone Hayes' data by revealing him as

00:28:07.380 non-credible. Additionally, Sagenta hired a detective agency to investigate scientists on

00:28:12.620 the EPA's scientific advisory panel. They looked into the personal life of a judge and they paid

00:28:17.700 130 experts to appear as independent supporters without disclosing ties to the company. Syngenta's

00:28:24.280 internal documents show that they routinely paid these experts to appear in the media and support

00:28:28.740 the safety of atrazine. Documents show that people on this list were coached and that their statements

00:28:33.300 in support of atrazine were edited by the company. Court documents include an email

00:28:37.560 Dated October 28, 2009, from a Sagenta employee asking her boss how to pay these third-party

00:29:03.880 allies who write in support of Atrazine.

00:29:05.960 Don Corsi, Ameritech professor of public policy at the University of Chicago,

00:29:10.720 who received $500 an hour from Sagenta to make media appearances supporting the necessity of atrazine.

00:29:16.960 Stephen Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.com and president of Citizens for the Integrity of Science,

00:29:22.740 was also in Sagenta's support of third-party stakeholders' database.

00:29:26.200 In a letter dated August 6, 2008, Milloy requested a $25,000 grant

00:29:30.840 for the non-profit Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research.

00:29:35.580 He writes, send the check to me as usual, and I'll take care of it.

00:29:39.680 A PR company called the White House Writers Group, based in Washington, D.C., received

00:29:44.300 more than $1.6 million in 2010 and 2011 to write op-ed pieces in favor of atrazine.

00:29:50.400 1.6 million to write positive reviews about shit that makes it gay.

00:29:57.600 You see what I'm saying?

00:29:58.520 Well, Big Pharma said it's good.

00:30:00.100 I have to be really careful what I talk about, bro.

00:30:06.260 But you can apply all this logic to that.

00:30:11.420 They fund whatever information they want you to believe.

00:30:14.600 Another PR firm called Jane Thomas & Associates, which is based in Chicago,

00:30:19.240 devised a plan to send trained critics to Tyrone Hayes' speaking events

00:30:22.780 to disrupt, intimidate him, and question his science.

00:30:26.020 If you want to learn more about Sigenta's secret campaign,

00:30:28.360 I'm mostly citing from a website called 100 Reporters from an article by Claire Howard.

00:30:33.460 You can find that in the description box below.

00:30:39.240 Before I end this video, I need to address a certain elephant in the room.

00:30:43.040 And that's the question of Hayes' credibility.

00:30:45.480 When I first started working on this topic,

00:30:47.460 I watched a three-part series from a YouTuber and skeptic named Miles Power.

00:30:51.840 In his video, he says that Hayes never provided data to the EPA.

00:30:55.540 And it's not really surprising because if you look at Miles Power's sources,

00:30:59.040 you'll see that most of them come from known agrochemical company shills

00:31:02.120 or just straight from Sagenta's website.

00:31:04.460 Sparkling water!

00:31:06.020 Here's what Hayes says about his data.

00:31:07.880 At this point, I was talking to the EPA.

00:31:10.260 EPA, you read some weird stuff online, said I never shared my data.

00:31:13.700 The EPA was in my lab watching me collect data.

00:31:16.560 They had a statistician who reanalyzed all of my raw data.

00:31:20.420 They were right there. The company made that stuff up.

00:31:22.740 Now, I can't prove that Hayes shared his data,

00:31:25.080 but I can show you why I suspect that this is a misleading talking point

00:31:28.200 manufactured by Syngenta's PR team with the help of some members of the EPA.

00:31:32.520 This point stems from a statement made by an EPA representative in 2005 named Ann Lindsay,

00:31:38.800 while she testified before the Agricultural and Rural Development Committee

00:31:42.100 of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

00:31:44.620 She said, quote,

00:31:45.700 Dr. Hayes claims that not only his laboratory has repeated the findings many times in experiments

00:31:50.240 with thousands of frogs, but that other scientists have also replicated his results.

00:31:54.900 EPA, however, has never seen either the results

00:31:57.420 from any independent investigator

00:31:59.100 published in peer-reviewed scientific journals

00:32:01.180 or the raw data from Dr. Hayes' additional experiments.

00:32:04.860 Now, this seems pretty damning

00:32:06.300 until you realize that within her same testimony,

00:32:08.980 she said, quote,

00:32:09.980 Dr. Hayes published the first report

00:32:11.920 of his scientific research in 2002.

00:32:14.220 In 2003, EPA began to collect all scientific studies

00:32:17.620 that examined the potential effects of atrazine

00:32:19.960 on various species of frogs,

00:32:21.480 including all of the studies published by Tyrone Hayes. As part of its efforts to understand the

00:32:26.720 available data, EPA scientists visited Dr. Tyrone Hayes' lab and reviewed some of his raw data.

00:32:33.560 So I mean, which is it? Now here's something suspicious that I found. While I was looking

00:32:38.460 through Sagenta's internal documents, I noticed Ann Lindsay's name written three times. As you

00:32:43.500 can see here, it says, check if we sent Lindsay testimony. On another page it says, is Ann Lindsay

00:32:49.180 prepared to speak to reporters and again this guy did his research man shout out to okie's weird

00:32:54.240 stories testimony of course i'm speculating here but i don't know it seems very fishy

00:32:59.960 in 2010 the u.s epa wrote to dave winters a state representative who requested clarification about

00:33:06.920 tyrone hayes's data in this letter the epa said quote in your letter you asked whether epa received

00:33:12.920 from dr hayes a complete transparent set of raw data which could be interpreted and analyzed by

00:33:17.920 the EPA and used in generating a full evaluation of his work. In addition, you asked whether EPA

00:33:23.420 was in agreement with Dr. Hayes' findings. In response to your first question, I regret that

00:33:28.280 the EPA science staff in the Office of Pesticide Programs, EFED, could not properly account for

00:33:33.780 the sample sizes and study design reportedly used by the Berkeley researchers. As a result,

00:33:38.880 we were unable to complete any independent analysis to support the study's conclusions.

00:33:43.620 This letter does not say that Hayes refused to provide his data. It says that the EPA

00:33:47.700 was unable to properly account for the sample sizes or experimental design.

00:33:52.420 It is a statement which is intentionally vague and allows for multiple interpretations,

00:33:56.820 some sinister and some mundane. It can refer either to the reproducibility of Hayes' results

00:34:01.900 or the ability of the EPA to replicate those results. But nowhere does it say that he refused

00:34:07.520 to share his results. In other words, it's a diplomatic way of saying that they did not

00:34:11.940 attempt to replicate his experiment, but that there are other experiments which may or may

00:34:16.380 have not contradicted Hayes' results.

00:34:46.380 killer too? And I didn't even get to talk about

00:34:48.520 how atrazine exposure is associated

00:34:50.560 Micropenis!

00:34:53.140 Micropenis!

00:34:58.260 With higher rates of micropenises

00:35:00.200 in boys.

00:35:04.180 Embarked

00:35:04.660 on this journey to see if Alex Jones

00:35:06.520 was right about gay frogs. I didn't know

00:35:08.480 at the time that it would reveal itself to be a

00:35:10.480 complex tale of corporate malfeasance,

00:35:13.000 bureaucratic corruption, and

00:35:14.500 Yo, shout out to Okie's Weird Stories.

00:35:17.200 You did great research in this video.

00:35:20.460 I really appreciate this.

00:35:22.060 We learned a lot.

00:35:22.840 This is educational.

00:35:24.020 If you have more videos like this, I'm going to check it out.

00:35:25.880 Shout out to Okie's Weird Stories.

00:35:27.800 And Moose, make sure that his link is top of the description when I post his reaction.

00:35:30.660 Scientific manipulation.

00:35:31.780 Please.

00:35:32.260 So here's what I learned.

00:35:33.480 First, for Alex Jones' statement about gay frogs to be right, he should have said,

00:35:37.760 The herbicide atrazine gets into the water through agricultural runoff and sometimes turns frogs into hermaphrodites.

00:35:43.760 Although I suppose that's not as memorable as

00:35:46.340 The turn of the freaking frog's gay

00:35:48.060 I don't like it

00:35:49.480 The globalist agenda

00:35:50.140 The turn of the freaking frog's gay

00:35:51.840 Wake the fuck up

00:35:53.440 America wake up

00:35:54.720 The globalist agenda's killing you

00:35:56.300 The turn of the freaking frog's gay

00:35:59.340 I'm sick of it

00:36:00.680 That was better

00:36:03.960 But then people say

00:36:05.780 He's crazy

00:36:06.420 He's playing a character

00:36:07.420 The turn of the freaking frog's gay

00:36:09.780 Putting chemicals in the water

00:36:12.220 that turned the friggin' frogs gay!

00:36:15.240 Second, I learned a lot about the product defense industry,

00:36:18.240 which specializes in scientific uncertainty campaigns.

00:36:21.400 If a product is on the market and scientific studies are published showing that it has adverse effects,

00:36:26.460 what typically happens is that the registrants of that product

00:36:29.060 will try to delay regulation for as long as they possibly can.

00:36:32.440 In doing so, they will manufacture doubt by commissioning their own contradictory studies,

00:36:36.540 which they then show to policymakers as proof that the science is still uncertain.

00:36:40.880 Then policymakers will often aid industry by giving them their stamp of approval while assuring the public that they've tested the product and deemed it safe.

00:36:49.800 This is business as usual.

00:36:51.620 Just look into the ineffectual regulatory history of DDT, Teflon, climate change, or fracking.

00:36:57.360 There are multiple layers to this issue.

00:36:59.620 It's not just that corporations are bad and evil, man.

00:37:03.020 Really, it's systemic.

00:37:05.160 Federal agencies like the EPA are in the pockets of big corporations.

00:37:08.960 legislation is enacted that enables business interests

00:37:11.520 Oh, basically, yeah. Corporations are bad, man.

00:37:13.680 That's what you're saying, just in long form.

00:37:15.220 to slow or prevent regulation completely,

00:37:17.740 such as the Halliburton loophole,

00:37:19.300 which made fracking exempt from regulation by the EPA.

00:37:22.460 Unethical scientists are willing to aid corporations in distorting the truth

00:37:25.900 by producing studies not meant to advance science,

00:37:28.520 but instead to support companies in policy and legal quagmires.

00:37:32.440 And much of the general public doesn't have the time or expertise

00:37:35.160 to know what's safe or who to trust.

00:37:37.060 truth is central to this story i'm not an activist and i don't even think that atrazine should be

00:37:42.820 banned my issue is really after all that you don't think actually what's the benefits of atrazine

00:37:48.320 then blatant dishonesty can you respond to the chat you're here right now blatant dishonesty but

00:37:51.740 why are you not against atrazine after all this when institutions lie to us who can we rely on

00:37:57.780 to expose the truth if regular the turn of the freaking frogs gay that's the most reliable news

00:38:04.000 source.

00:38:05.000 ...bodies like the EPA are so compromised by political and financial conflicts of interest,

00:38:09.820 who can we depend on to ensure that human interests don't take a backseat to economic

00:38:14.020 growth and product sales?

00:38:15.500 Additionally, how do we maintain the type of economic growth which our modern consumer

00:38:19.540 lifestyles depend on without severe costs to human health and the environment?

00:38:23.880 Sadly, I don't have the answers to these questions.

00:38:27.080 After looking at this story and many similar to it, my opinion is that most corporations

00:38:31.380 cannot be trusted to weigh public health

00:38:33.580 over short-term financial gain.

00:38:35.640 So atrazine is bad! What the fuck?

00:38:38.120 Definitely shouldn't be solely relied on

00:38:39.860 to test... Name one positive right now.

00:38:42.580 Okay, he said all herbicides

00:38:43.920 are toxic. There's no way to

00:38:45.680 use them without potential harm.

00:38:47.680 So then don't use herbicides in the fucking

00:38:49.680 water! And the government should

00:38:51.620 not be promoting the water!

00:38:53.560 In New York City right now, the mayor is saying

00:38:55.720 New York City, drink the tap water.

00:38:58.180 Water's good for you. It makes

00:38:59.680 your teeth white it's fucking brainwashing all herbicides are toxic okay so that atrazine is bad

00:39:07.440 and they should tell people don't drink the tap water instead the government is actively

00:39:12.140 encouraging us to drink the tap water it is bad it's the safety of their products all i know now

00:39:22.340 is that if a product poses a risk to the public it's unlikely that most corporations will be

00:39:26.880 forthright about it. Let me begin my questioning on the matter of whether or not nicotine is

00:39:33.720 addictive. Let me ask you first, and I'd like to just go down the row, whether each of you

00:39:39.020 believes that nicotine is not addictive. I heard virtually all of you touch on it, and just yes

00:39:45.400 or no. Do you believe nicotine is not addictive? I believe nicotine is not addictive, yes. Mr.

00:39:50.160 Johnston. Congressman, cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definitions of

00:39:58.340 addiction. There is no intoxication. We'll take that as a no. And again, time is short. If you

00:40:03.020 could just, I think each of you believe nicotine is not addictive. We just would like to have-

00:40:07.340 They'll lie to make you dumber, weaker, and continue buying the products to use us as slaves

00:40:13.020 and milk us of all of our natural souls and our natural energy. They don't give a fuck about you.

00:40:18.800 Well, it keeps you safe when you do that, you fucking idiot.

00:40:22.780 They make more money off of you.

00:40:26.120 I have this for the record.

00:40:27.940 I don't believe that nicotine or our products are addictive.

00:40:32.300 I believe nicotine is not addictive.

00:40:35.700 I believe that nicotine is not addictive.

00:40:39.320 I believe that nicotine is not addictive.

00:40:43.060 And I, too, believe that nicotine is not addictive.

00:40:48.800 okay so thanks for agreeing to talk to us um we have two clips to uh prepared for you today we're

00:40:56.360 gonna she's like who the fuck like she's already afraid of you because i know asian body language

00:41:00.540 right now black man talking to me what is it also camera on me should i put the mask on i can't

00:41:07.800 believe you got an asian woman and say yes to a street interview that's the hardest demo to hit

00:41:11.120 you see that turn body language you know she's afraid of you show you uh the first one and then

00:41:16.860 i'm going to come back i'm going to ask you some questions about it and then after that we have a

00:41:20.680 follow-up clip and then i'm going to ask you some questions about that so mira is going to come here

00:41:25.520 and show you the clip okay a nice safe woman you see the body language change now she stands closer

00:41:32.900 now her shoulders are more rounded now there it is the gay bomb look it up for yourself i mean this

00:41:42.420 is what they're what do you think tap water is it's a gay bomb baby and i'm not saying people

00:41:48.860 didn't naturally have homosexual feelings i'm not even getting into it quite frankly i mean give me

00:41:53.640 a break you think i'm like i'm shocked by it so i'm up here bashing it because i don't like gay

00:41:59.060 people i don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay

00:42:03.900 all right so so can you tell me about what you just watched

00:42:15.780 um it was about gay bombs and gay bomb i don't turning turning the water gay like putting

00:42:27.180 chemicals into the water no oh my god you butt how did you not get it from that video

00:42:32.600 I'm literally like they're turning like literally dude dude literally the water's gay. No

00:42:38.760 No

00:42:39.720 Most people will never wake up most people would just be like what that's like kind of weird

00:42:46.080 Is someone gonna flirt with me?

00:42:48.560 Come on like I don't understand

00:42:52.500 What what he's saying is there's chemicals in the water

00:42:55.500 The government is putting chemicals in the water that are turning the frickin crop skin

00:43:02.600 what that's crazy um that's a yikes for me not the water ha ha let's go get a white claw

00:43:11.240 one more time shout out to okies weird stories this is a great great video

00:43:20.000 one more time can i do it the turn of the freaking frogs gay

00:43:26.120 okay so what's next chat another conspiracy video recycling is literally a scam ironically in

00:43:38.480 minecraft i don't know this is against tos so you're a plastic company you teamed up with oil

00:43:42.640 companies to create a miracle product that can do pretty much anything it's cheap durable easily

00:43:47.400 accessible and easy to mass produce what more could you ask for i know i feel like i'm dreaming

00:43:52.120 And by the 1980s, you're in your prime.

00:43:55.060 The only problem is plastics can't be destroyed.

00:43:57.900 They just keep piling up and up and up.

00:44:00.360 Now, this is actually not a problem for you.

00:44:02.680 The more plastic that piles up means the more plastic you're selling.

00:44:07.920 They're throwing the freaking trash, gay!

00:44:11.360 But the real problem is the general public.

00:44:14.440 See, the masses crave to feel that they're good people.

00:44:16.980 That they're the righteous ones, the moral ones, fighting against evil.

00:44:19.880 and polluting the planet with plastic trash that takes upwards of a half a millennia to decompose

00:44:29.960 makes you an easy target for the plebs in their eyes you're the evil scapegoats so the general

00:44:35.280 public starts protesting the plastics industry now this is bad because you know the success of

00:44:40.580 anything political movements educational movements businesses entire industries including the plastics

00:44:46.100 industry rely on the approval of the public if the public turns on you you're done so you need

00:44:51.940 to come up with a solution something that would change the public's perception of plastic something

00:44:56.820 that will allow them to keep consuming plastic without feeling guilty about themselves for

00:45:00.660 destroying the planet the only problem is most plastic is literally not recyclable it's not

00:45:06.500 just that you can't recycle plastic chat before you watch this video before you get convinced

00:45:10.100 because i definitely am going to get swayed jake tran videos pretty much always make me agree with

00:45:14.580 with him. W or L. W being recycling is a scam. L saying no, save the environment, climate change

00:45:21.240 is real, hug a tree. W, this shit is all a scam. It's that the process to do so is so expensive

00:45:28.080 and labor intensive that making new plastic will always be cheaper. So you settle on the next best

00:45:33.380 thing. This is the recycling symbol created in 1970. And this is the resin identification code,

00:45:39.580 A symbol created by the plastics industry in 1988.

00:45:43.140 A symbol that's on almost every piece of plastic you buy today.

00:45:46.320 Now, if you're saying to yourself that symbol looks shockingly similar to the official recycling symbol,

00:45:50.780 you'd be correct, because that was by design.

00:45:53.480 A design to intentionally deceive the general public into believing the plastic you buy is recyclable.

00:45:58.580 Yes, recycling is a literal lie concocted by the plastics industry to sell you more plastic.

00:46:04.080 Whaaaat?

00:46:06.080 And this is how it was pulled off.

00:46:08.080 How much plastic could the world possibly use?

00:46:11.900 Oh, that's not so much.

00:46:15.420 So?

00:46:17.780 So?

00:46:24.540 I had no idea.

00:46:27.860 You can even recycle your bicycle

00:46:29.880 because all metals and plastics are recyclable.

00:46:32.980 So reduce, reuse, recycle.

00:46:35.640 Reduce, reuse, recycle.

00:46:37.240 the way it makes i remember i went to this really wokey hug a tree school full of outdoor nature

00:46:42.900 people and i used to be like recycling it's just a bottle i'm not gonna save the environment if

00:46:48.300 the earth is burning what is one bottle gonna do and i had all these hug a tree teachers and i

00:46:53.460 remember putting we had this day where it was like a barbecue and there were a bunch of cans

00:46:58.140 and then a lot of the kids put in the trash can and one of the tree hugger teachers went

00:47:02.160 head first a dive into the into the trash can digging around rummaging like a fucking raccoon

00:47:09.280 trying to get all the cans one by one and all the girls like yes queen go you're saving the

00:47:15.780 environment literally dude it's like okay i don't think that you're gonna save the polar bears

00:47:24.240 people feel good about recycling is based on misinformation the biggest plastic manufacturer

00:47:32.700 today is the dow chemical company the dow chemical company has over 19 million dollars

00:47:37.040 the dow company i'm jake tran i have purple hair now you're cool you're cool though shout

00:47:44.040 upstart.com slash jake tram use my link in the description plastic plastic plastic what are

00:47:54.340 plastics are they vegetable or mineral plastic production started in the early 1900s it was

00:48:07.160 marketed as a material of a thousand uses and it was making money and gaining popularity slowly

00:48:12.320 but it was nowhere near its real earning potential. Then World War II hit. And since

00:48:16.900 economic power was just as important as military power, wars aren't free after all. The government

00:48:22.040 started prioritizing the production of this new material that wasn't just very useful,

00:48:25.660 but also very profitable. You see, the military had to get money from somewhere to keep finding

00:48:29.860 the war, and plastic was an industry with a lot of potential just waiting to be exploited.

00:48:34.500 So during World War II alone, plastic production in the US increased by 300%.

00:48:38.960 Plastic took the place of steel in cars and warplanes,

00:48:41.960 it replaced paper and glass packaging, and even wood furniture.

00:48:45.420 Plastics will play as large a role in peace as they do in war.

00:48:51.260 Here is a plane containing hundreds of plastic parts.

00:48:55.240 Here another bonded by plastics.

00:49:00.140 This paratrooper floating down to welcome Mother Earth is depending on plastics to get him there safely.

00:49:05.700 And since plastic is made from oil and natural gas products,

00:49:08.660 plastic companies suddenly emerged from the oil giants like Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and DuPont.

00:49:13.340 I love my plastics in a good old lucky strike and beating my wife at the end of the war.

00:49:18.720 And with the backing of the fossil fuel industry, there was nowhere to go but up.

00:49:23.040 It's kind of hard to illustrate just how much of a game changer plastic was for companies.

00:49:27.140 Imagine spending all these man hours machining these expensive materials like metal, wood,

00:49:31.480 and glass for years and years and years. And then comes along this wonder material that was not only

00:49:36.660 orders amounted to cheaper, but could be molded into any shape and was durable. Everyone was using

00:49:41.460 it for pretty much everything from chairs to cheap jewelry to car parts. But because it was so durable

00:49:46.720 and useful, these plebs started hanging onto their plastic products. They weren't throwing them away

00:49:51.020 after one single use. This was a problem for you. If people reuse your plastic indefinitely, you can't

00:49:56.780 make them a repeat buyer, which is where all the real money is at. So the plastic industry launched

00:50:01.480 a massive campaign. Millions of dollars worth of ads. Encouraging people not-

00:50:05.820 Wait, so is plastic reusable?

00:50:08.100 Why would it be such unsophisticated peasants? Reusing dirty plastic? Ew, just throw it away

00:50:13.560 after one use. What's the harm? It's so cheap to replace. And it started to work. But then

00:50:18.880 came the hippies. You see, not everyone saw the beauty in plastic as you did. And when they

00:50:24.600 started noticing your ads telling everyone to just chuck out their plastic and buy new ones,

00:50:28.260 The plastic industry became the prime target for destroying the environment,

00:50:31.760 which led to America's first ever Earth Day holiday in 1970

00:50:34.940 to protest the use of plastic and other pollutants.

00:50:38.080 1 in 10 Americans took part.

00:50:40.440 Now obviously, this number of people going up against your industry is not good.

00:50:44.700 If everyone found out the extent of just how bad plastics were for the environment,

00:50:48.520 how they can't be destroyed and how it kills animals,

00:50:50.940 you would be out of business.

00:50:52.680 So you concocted a genius plan.

00:50:54.920 Instead of fighting the hippies,

00:50:56.160 you would join them playing both sides.

00:50:58.260 i'm playing both sides so that i always come out on top so you the other plastic companies and the

00:51:03.460 fossil fuel companies create a front organization called keep america beautiful a very wholesome

00:51:08.420 inconspicuous name and to kick things i want to keep america beautiful you create the crying indian

00:51:13.700 ad people start pollution people can yeah get them right in the white guilt stop it

00:51:21.780 it's literally called the crying indian i did not make that up hilariously the crying indian

00:51:26.340 was actually an italian actor named iron oh my god he looks like fucking al pacino this dude look

00:51:34.200 at that italian nose hey oh baba the boopy baba ganousha guys cody i know baba ganousha is greek

00:51:41.020 but hey eat the cannoli what the fucking this is look at the oh my god and apparently impersonating

00:51:49.020 native americans was a specialty this ad played on tvs all over america and for a hot minute it

00:51:54.700 seem like earth they play you like a fucking fiddle bro they protest were really making a difference

00:51:59.180 here were the actual plastic companies telling people to stop littering and to be more conscious

00:52:03.380 of the environment so the indian doesn't cry sure you could have spent the money funny

00:52:07.380 how does everyone think oh indian means nature ways to make plastic more reusable it's not even

00:52:14.380 an indian that's like a 500 year old white mistake it's not even india but it's just so funny how

00:52:20.320 able to still use these old lies why do that when you can just placate the masses by making it look

00:52:24.800 like you're trying to change and it worked people started throwing their trash away and it even

00:52:29.440 helps out the very first few recycling plants and those few recycling plants gave way to the best

00:52:34.240 idea yet.

00:52:36.620 It goes right back into the landfill too.

00:52:45.960 And now, I'm what I've always wanted to be.

00:52:54.320 By 1970, plastic products that were recyclable, like milk jugs and soda bottles, had the official

00:52:59.620 recycling symbol stamped on them.

00:53:01.220 That is good news.

00:53:02.180 Plebs don't have to feel guilty anymore about buying plastic milk and soda bottles

00:53:05.860 The bad news is that milk and soda bottles make up just a tiny percentage of all the plastic out there

00:53:10.620 With most of it not being recyclable

00:53:12.480 But there is still hope

00:53:14.100 What is most of it?

00:53:15.280 The public mind has now associated this symbol with being good for the planet

00:53:18.740 So all you have to do is latch onto that association

00:53:22.400 So you come up with your own version of the recycling symbol

00:53:25.280 You make the arrows a little bit thinner

00:53:26.900 You slap a number in the center of it

00:53:28.560 And then you lobby to slap this symbol onto every plastic product in existence

00:53:33.060 here's the official recycling symbol and here is the resin identification marker or resin

00:53:38.100 identification code concocted by the plastic industry there are seven different resin

00:53:43.140 identification codes yet realistically only two out of the seven types of plastics can be recycled

00:53:48.340 but it works consumers didn't know what these big numbers meant all they saw was what looked

00:53:52.580 like a recycling symbol so they just assumed that all plastic products with the symbol were

00:53:56.340 recyclable buying plastic no longer meant that they were destroying the planet so they kept on

00:54:00.660 on consuming when in reality you knew the truth that plastic recycling would never work that it

00:54:05.800 will always be too expensive that plastic degrades every time it was recycled so it could only really

00:54:10.820 be reused two or three times but that didn't matter anymore because the public's guilt was

00:54:15.780 satisfied if the public thinks the recycling is working then they're not going to be as concerned

00:54:21.060 about the environment and although these coats should have made the life of recyclers easier

00:54:28.260 in theory, because they can now easily separate what is recyclable from what isn't, it had the

00:54:32.800 opposite effect. It made recycling almost impossible now, because people were throwing

00:54:36.960 way more junk into the recycle bin. In the US, we're recycling less than 50% of our bottles and

00:54:47.000 cans. Join PepsiCo in the recycling of every last bottle and can. PepsiCo, one of the biggest

00:54:54.220 corporations in the world right and the advertising campaigns didn't end there

00:54:59.140 hundreds of ads hundreds of campaigns all encouraging people to recycle their

00:55:03.080 plastics so they could protect the planets one plastic lobbyist famously

00:55:06.480 said what we need to do is advertise our way out of this the bottle may look

00:55:13.020 empty yet it's anything but trash says one ad from 1990 showing somebody jtran

00:55:18.260 make a video about how much bbls are contributing into the plastic

00:55:21.160 consumption. Plastic bottle bouncing out of a garbage truck, it's full of potential. We've

00:55:25.500 pioneered the country's largest, most comprehensive plastic recycling program to help plastic fill

00:55:30.040 valuable uses and roles. I'm reusing this plastic jug and making it into a funnel and a tool holder.

00:55:45.700 Jars, nuts, bolts, screws, nails. Reuse it for the future. It's worth it. These ads were made

00:55:51.140 to look like they came from environmentalists.

00:55:53.180 When in reality, it really came from the fossil fuel companies

00:55:56.080 behind all this plastic in the first place.

00:56:00.520 Whenever the public became outraged,

00:56:03.060 you would fund more recycling initiatives.

00:56:04.960 And when the public died down, that funding was pulled.

00:56:08.080 With all this advertising came the introduction

00:56:09.880 of single-use plastics, like straws, shopping bags,

00:56:12.720 bottled water, a material designed to last forever

00:56:15.320 was being thrown away after one use.

00:56:17.920 But don't worry, because you can recycle them.

00:56:19.780 building up the industry's revenue to an insane $1.2 trillion a year.

00:56:25.160 Cigarette companies and the diamond cartel are often credited as some of the greatest marketers of all time

00:56:29.560 because of the feats they pulled off, but their practices eventually became somewhat well-known to the public.

00:56:35.120 But the plastic industry? Today, hardly anyone even knows about the ruse that was pulled off.

00:56:40.400 Some recycling makes sense. Reusing aluminum saves lots of energy.

00:56:45.360 But just about everything else is a scam.

00:56:49.780 I feel really dumb right now.

00:57:00.300 We all know the good that recycling does for Darwin and its environment,

00:57:03.680 but a few simple mistakes can mean the difference between recycling right

00:57:08.020 and wasting our recycling efforts.

00:57:11.000 Putting plastic bags in the yellow bins, for example,

00:57:13.860 can send tons of good recycling to landfill.

00:57:17.160 So don't let our efforts go to waste.

00:57:19.780 Learn to recycle for good.

00:57:24.220 Today, although more and more of the types of plastic can be recycled,

00:57:27.720 it either costs way more money compared to just making more plastic,

00:57:30.680 or the act of recycling itself is even worse for the environment.

00:57:34.340 Paper recycling involves bleaching and de-inking,

00:57:36.980 things that can pollute the environment even more.

00:57:39.100 Transporting materials to recycling plants out of states

00:57:41.300 can cause even more pollution than the recycling would make up.

00:57:43.920 All the transportation and gas, right?

00:57:45.280 All recycling isn't necessarily good and isn't necessarily environmentally benign.

00:57:49.780 Well, I live in Bozeman, Montana, and in order to recycle glass bottles, we ship them down to Golden, Colorado.

00:57:54.520 And in places like L.A., using 400 more garbage trucks to collect recyclable waste,

00:58:00.700 most of it won't be recycled in the first place, just as to air pollution and more taxes.

00:58:05.560 After Los Angeles mandated recycling, they discovered they needed another 400 garbage trucks to pick up the new container.

00:58:13.280 Today, less than 10% of all plastic is recycled.

00:58:16.180 But the impressive part is that no one is the wiser.

00:58:18.860 so where does the rest of that 90% go when you look at plastic you know how

00:58:28.680 it helps these commercials seem so propaganda and goofy now that you know

00:58:32.660 the truth yeah there's happy music here and listen to what the corporations are

00:58:36.960 saying it's good stay fresh and safe and light and unbreakable and strong and

00:58:42.740 easy to carry but take another look plastic also saves energy because it

00:58:47.480 helps make cars lighter to save gas. And plastic insulation helps save energy at home. Even

00:58:53.000 these strong plastic bags help save energy because they take less energy to make than

00:58:57.200 other grocery bags. To learn more, call this number for a free booklet and take another

00:59:01.740 look at plastic. Most of the 300 million tons of plastic waste produced each year that isn't

00:59:08.360 recycled ends up in landfills. But not all of it ends up there. Around 10 million tons

00:59:12.940 ends up in the ocean each year as well. That's the equivalent of one garbage truck full of

00:59:16.840 plastic being dumped into the ocean every single minute, according to some estimates. This could

00:59:21.840 be accidental due to heavy rain and wind moving trash into the ocean, or it could be from illegal

00:59:26.160 dumping, when most of it coming from Asian countries we sell our trash to. And since

00:59:30.240 plastic isn't biodegradable, most of it slowly breaks into smaller and smaller pieces over time.

00:59:34.960 These tiny pieces of plastic are called microplastics, and they either form a sludge

00:59:38.800 layer in the middle of the ocean or end up being eaten by fish. And no matter if you're a raging

00:59:43.620 environmentalist SJW, or a hardcore conservative, this creates a problem for you. Not only does it

00:59:49.300 kill marine life like dolphins and whales, we all know about that, but that same plastic ends

00:59:54.080 up seeping its weight into practically everything we eat. It's in the delicious sushi I'm addicted

00:59:58.680 to, other forms of seafood, it's in the salt taken from the ocean water, it's in things that don't

01:00:03.940 even come from the ocean like fruits and vegetables, with apples having the highest

01:00:07.580 concentration of microplastics, and broccoli and carrots trailing.

01:00:10.620 But what the fuck are we supposed to eat then, man?

01:00:12.940 How do you avoid this?

01:00:14.120 Behind, and sometimes it's even found in the air we breathe.

01:00:17.740 Decades of plastic use have contaminated our air, water, and soil.

01:00:21.820 Eating just a bite of an apple can now mean

01:00:23.700 eating hundreds of thousands of bits of plastic at the same time.

01:00:26.920 And just like when cigarettes first came out,

01:00:29.060 there wasn't decades of smoking history to base studies off of.

01:00:31.860 So doctors just assumed it wasn't bad for you,

01:00:33.960 giving smoking their stamp of approval.

01:00:35.800 Today, we still don't have a clear picture

01:00:37.340 on what the long-term effects of consuming plastic are.

01:00:39.500 Yes, we love plastic so much that we've become one with the same material concocted by plastic and oil giants.

01:00:48.920 Now, if you watch this channel, you know that I am not the biggest fan of taxes or a giant all-consuming government.

01:00:54.960 That's why I'm not going to use this opportunity to push you guys to support more government programs funded by taxes, more regulations.

01:01:01.020 Team Trees, right?

01:01:01.900 Like every environmentalist.

01:01:03.640 Instead, I'm going to push you guys to donate to Team C's.

01:01:06.140 Alright, cool. Shout out to Jake Tran. You woke me up.

01:01:09.500 That's it.

01:01:14.800 Is this your job?

SNEAKO - September 14, 2022

Alex Jones Is NOT Crazy!

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