SNEAKO - September 14, 2022


Alex Jones Is NOT Crazy!


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156

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Alex Jones was wrong about frogs being gay. But was he right about it? Or was he just wrong about it all along with the rest of the conspiracy theories he peddles? Is there something in the water we drink that turns the frogs gay?

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00:00:00.000 I want to watch gay frogs, a deep dive. 1.00
00:00:02.480 Pesticide information, this is Meredith, can I help you? 0.76
00:00:05.300 Yeah, I have some questions about atrazine, a pesticide.
00:00:09.540 Okay. 0.59
00:00:10.720 Um, are they putting chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay? 0.74
00:00:18.420 Is this a prank call? 0.78
00:00:20.540 No.
00:00:22.340 O.
00:00:23.240 Gay. 0.98
00:00:24.440 Aye. 0.74
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. 0.98
00:00:34.700 That's right, gay frogs. 1.00
00:00:37.320 Why have I spent the last three months of my life researching gay frogs, you ask? 1.00
00:00:40.860 Well, I love it when silly bullshit ends up being true. 1.00
00:00:44.360 So was Alex Jones right about gay frogs? 1.00
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 0.97
00:01:13.660 about frogs being gay 0.98
00:01:14.840 should wake you up. 1.00
00:01:16.600 Why the fuck is this conspiracy true? 1.00
00:01:23.420 wake up wake up wake up snap out of it snap out of it you have been under cult brainwashing 1.00
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 0.99
00:02:43.700 outside without drinking my new york city tap water it's disgusting they are trying to fucking 0.99
00:02:50.040 make you weaker they're turning the frogs gay with the water why would you want to drink that 1.00
00:02:53.600 why does the government have commercials for tap water think about it what the hell are they selling 0.99
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 0.99
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 1.00
00:03:11.080 naturally have homosexual feelings i'm not even getting into it quite frankly i mean give me a 0.98
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 0.99
00:03:21.360 i don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay you sound 0.99
00:03:26.640 homophobic and misogynist and problematic why would you say that you're triggering me what 1.00
00:03:31.700 do you hate me or something do you understand that serious crap i'm sick of being social 0.99
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 0.98
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 0.99
00:03:56.520 frustration while watching the full broadcast was that although it's the quote it's a gay bomb 0.99
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 0.99
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 0.99
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? 1.00
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 0.90
00:04:39.540 pull up major universities folks and i think it's gay people the point is is that atrazine 0.80
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 1.00
00:04:55.660 is woke and his birth it's it's destroying you it's meant to fuck with your hormones 0.98
00:05:00.740 the uh whatever the food the water everything you're saying atrazine is basically in all of 0.99
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 0.99
00:05:25.400 who don't produce eggs so that frogs are dying and i said it's making the freaking frogs gay 1.00
00:05:29.660 So the chemical that Alex Jones was referring to is called atrazine. 0.93
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. 1.00
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! 1.00
00:06:52.720 Trans frogs, man. Sneak eat the frogs. 1.00
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. 0.95
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. 0.97
00:07:26.000 Maybe he's just crazy, Chad. 0.80
00:07:27.240 Actually, no, I think he's just a wild conspiracy theorist. 1.00
00:07:29.540 I think he's homophobic and transphobic and misogynist. 0.99
00:07:32.920 I'm kind of retarded. 0.99
00:07:35.500 Although Hayes has reported such findings, 0.98
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. 0.84
00:07:46.880 Feminization refers to hermaphroditism, intersex, full sex reversal, 0.99
00:07:51.380 and eggs inside of testes. 1.00
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? 1.00
00:09:41.160 You a girl? 0.99
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 0.99
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 0.52
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? 0.97
00:13:13.480 Why are they trying to turn us gay?
00:13:15.440 That's what this proves. 0.96
00:13:16.740 20% of them developed into hermaphrodites
00:13:20.420 With both testes and ovaries 0.98
00:13:21.840 Here's testes
00:13:23.740 Which males should have 0.83
00:13:25.920 And this guy's got some ovaries 1.00
00:13:27.880 He's got another large testes 0.56
00:13:29.580 He's got some more ovaries 0.99
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, 0.97
00:14:34.040 the earrings, shit like that, 0.98
00:14:35.400 you were drinking a lot of tap water, decent drip. 1.00
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. 0.95
00:16:59.900 Okay, so here's where the fuckery starts. Then the EPA said that they required additional studies, 0.99
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. 1.00
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. 0.98
00:23:55.460 if they want to apply that policy to tyrone then think about it lady on the bot says fuck tyrone 0.79
00:24:03.400 it should be evenly applied to the syngenta study and they should have had an independent third 0.84
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 0.63
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. 0.89
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. 1.00
00:26:12.340 American water makes you gay! 1.00
00:26:16.040 The tap water makes you gay! 1.00
00:26:19.960 Literally! 0.99
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! 0.90
00:26:42.760 Ways to destroy Tyrone Hayes' career and credibility. Strategies included, 0.99
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. 0.70
00:27:09.520 There you go, I call the chat, a paranoid schizo narcissist. 1.00
00:27:14.040 every time people start revealing the truth 0.98
00:27:16.900 they label you as a narcissistic 1.00
00:27:18.800 crazy, misogynistic 1.00
00:27:20.420 therapeutic, all these fucking 1.00
00:27:22.760 nonsense words, they go at your mental 1.00
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 0.87
00:27:30.840 ass words, these low level bot 0.94
00:27:32.740 words to people who are exposing the truth 0.99
00:27:34.960 wake the fuck up 0.98
00:27:36.260 a paranoid schizo 1.00
00:27:38.620 narcissist, because he's studying 0.94
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, 1.00
00:27:49.940 and all the fucking bots play along to this game. Unknowingly, being servants of lies. 1.00
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. 1.00
00:29:50.400 1.6 million to write positive reviews about shit that makes it gay. 1.00
00:29:57.600 You see what I'm saying? 1.00
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! 0.97
00:34:53.140 Micropenis! 0.97
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 0.97
00:35:06.520 was right about gay frogs. I didn't know 1.00
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, 0.80
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 0.99
00:35:46.340 The turn of the freaking frog's gay 1.00
00:35:48.060 I don't like it 1.00
00:35:49.480 The globalist agenda 1.00
00:35:50.140 The turn of the freaking frog's gay 1.00
00:35:51.840 Wake the fuck up 1.00
00:35:53.440 America wake up 0.99
00:35:54.720 The globalist agenda's killing you 1.00
00:35:56.300 The turn of the freaking frog's gay 1.00
00:35:59.340 I'm sick of it 1.00
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 1.00
00:36:07.420 The turn of the freaking frog's gay 1.00
00:36:09.780 Putting chemicals in the water 1.00
00:36:12.220 that turned the friggin' frogs gay! 0.97
00:36:15.240 Second, I learned a lot about the product defense industry, 0.98
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 0.99
00:37:57.780 to expose the truth if regular the turn of the freaking frogs gay that's the most reliable news 0.97
00:38:04.000 source. 0.98
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? 1.00
00:38:38.120 Definitely shouldn't be solely relied on 1.00
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. 0.99
00:38:47.680 So then don't use herbicides in the fucking 1.00
00:38:49.680 water! And the government should 0.99
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 0.99
00:39:07.440 and they should tell people don't drink the tap water instead the government is actively 0.99
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 0.99
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. 1.00
00:40:18.800 Well, it keeps you safe when you do that, you fucking idiot. 1.00
00:40:22.780 They make more money off of you. 1.00
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 0.97
00:40:56.360 gonna she's like who the fuck like she's already afraid of you because i know asian body language 1.00
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 0.99
00:41:07.800 believe you got an asian woman and say yes to a street interview that's the hardest demo to hit 0.93
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 0.99
00:41:25.520 and show you the clip okay a nice safe woman you see the body language change now she stands closer 1.00
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 0.99
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 0.99
00:41:48.860 didn't naturally have homosexual feelings i'm not even getting into it quite frankly i mean give me 0.98
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 0.98
00:41:59.060 people i don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay 0.99
00:42:03.900 all right so so can you tell me about what you just watched 0.99
00:42:15.780 um it was about gay bombs and gay bomb i don't turning turning the water gay like putting 1.00
00:42:27.180 chemicals into the water no oh my god you butt how did you not get it from that video 1.00
00:42:32.600 I'm literally like they're turning like literally dude dude literally the water's gay. No 1.00
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 0.99
00:43:20.000 one more time can i do it the turn of the freaking frogs gay 0.97
00:43:26.120 okay so what's next chat another conspiracy video recycling is literally a scam ironically in 0.99
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. 1.00
00:44:07.920 They're throwing the freaking trash, gay! 1.00
00:44:11.360 But the real problem is the general public. 1.00
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 1.00
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 1.00
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 0.98
00:47:02.160 head first a dive into the into the trash can digging around rummaging like a fucking raccoon 0.98
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 0.99
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 0.99
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 1.00
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 0.87
00:51:26.340 was actually an italian actor named iron oh my god he looks like fucking al pacino this dude look 0.91
00:51:34.200 at that italian nose hey oh baba the boopy baba ganousha guys cody i know baba ganousha is greek 0.98
00:51:41.020 but hey eat the cannoli what the fucking this is look at the oh my god and apparently impersonating 0.99
00:51:49.020 native americans was a specialty this ad played on tvs all over america and for a hot minute it 0.99
00:51:54.700 seem like earth they play you like a fucking fiddle bro they protest were really making a difference 0.96
00:51:59.180 here were the actual plastic companies telling people to stop littering and to be more conscious 0.99
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 0.77
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. 0.97
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, 0.86
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 1.00
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. 0.98
01:00:10.620 But what the fuck are we supposed to eat then, man? 0.98
01:00:12.940 How do you avoid this? 0.99
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?