The Golden One - January 23, 2019


Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Homosexual


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

143.97795

Word count

679

Sentence count

45

Harmful content

Hate speech

5

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

A recent study found that eating contaminated food causes male birds to choose other males as mates. The males exposed to the contaminated food were more than twice as likely to become homosexual than the ones not exposed. Is there a link between environmental pollution and homosexuality?

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.400 Greetings my esteemed subscribers! I have stumbled upon yet another interesting headline,
00:00:06.480 this time at National Geographic. I actually used to subscribe to the magazine when I was younger.
00:00:13.760 National Geographic, good stuff! But since then they have become a bit more heretical in certain
00:00:21.200 regards, as I'm sure some of you are aware. But anyway, they produce some good content anyway,
00:00:27.200 as we can see in this case. So we have the article at hand, mercury poisoning makes birds act
00:00:33.760 homosexual. Then we have the white ibis, here in the picture, who have been contaminated by mercury. 0.95
00:00:42.240 So I'm gonna read on a bit in the article before elaborating a bit myself. Male birds that eat 1.00
00:00:49.440 mercury contaminated food show surprising homosexual behavior, scientists have found. In a recent
00:00:56.400 experiment in captive white ibises, many of the males exposed to the metal chose other males as
00:01:02.560 mates. These male and male pairs did everything that a heterosexual pair would do, said study leader
00:01:10.400 Peter Frederick, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Cool name,
00:01:16.320 by the way, Gainesville. I hope they have good gyms there. So anyway, they continue elaborating a bit
00:01:23.680 on what these birds are doing. Not really necessary for our purposes today. Something that is interesting
00:01:31.040 though is this point. Contaminated birds produce fewer babies. The article states that the metal also
00:01:40.400 impact the heterosexual couples. Overall, female birds exposed to mercury yielded 35% fewer babies than the
00:01:49.040 control group. So obviously bad for both males and females. And the study goes on. I can link it
00:01:57.120 below in the description box if you will, if you want to read the entire thing. But I just thought to
00:02:04.800 say that I will make another video on homosexuality because I made one a few years ago which wasn't the
00:02:11.360 most enlightened in its nature. So I will make another one stating my positions on the homosexuality 1.00
00:02:19.200 question. But what I will say there is to a certain extent at least the same thing I said when I discussed
00:02:25.760 the transgender question a few weeks back. And that is that a large component, if we're talking about
00:02:32.960 this sort of thing, is looking at what may have caused an increase in homosexuality. For example,
00:02:39.520 in humans I mean. Has there been some environmental impact? Maybe this also works in humans. That, you know,
00:02:48.560 a child exposed to a lot of mercury as a young boy will turn out to be homosexual. It's a very interesting 1.00
00:02:55.760 and important thing to study, in my humble opinion. So if we're looking upon all of these sort of things,
00:03:02.560 I have said it before, I'll say it again, I do believe that it has a lot to do with hormonal
00:03:07.600 pollutions. All of these sort of maladies in the modern world. So transgenderism, for example, 1.00
00:03:15.280 I'm absolutely certain that it has a lot to do with the body being disrupted, the hormones of the body
00:03:22.720 being disrupted by environmental factors. The water we drink is contaminated, the fish we eat perhaps
00:03:30.000 also contaminated. So this is definitely something I would like to delve deeper into. I would definitely
00:03:36.800 like to see more studies being done upon these sort of things. How what you eat affects what you are,
00:03:44.800 how you turn out. And it makes perfect sense. What you eat is the building blocks of your body,
00:03:50.240 so make sure to eat a good diet. Now, obviously, in the modern world, you don't know what has been
00:03:55.360 contaminated either. You may think that you have a very clean diet consisting of a lot of fish,
00:04:00.800 but if the fish is all contaminated by mercury, yeah, it might not be good for you either. So anyway,
00:04:07.760 I will elaborate in a coming video, might be next week or something. I will elaborate on the
00:04:15.040 homosexuality question. But until then, it's definitely interesting to study the effects that
00:04:21.920 pollution can have on the biology and psychology of both humans and animals. So anyway, thank you for
00:04:28.400 watching. XOXO, BOOM!