Dear People,
I've been doing a completely absorbing and fascinating essay on Intersexuality (Hermaphroditism), Disability, Agricultural & Industry Pesticides. It was like a detective story - following lead after lead.
What I learned about chemicals is S-C-A-R-Y. What modern scientists who study the endocrine system - ie. the brain, pituitary gland, hypothalamus, adrenal glands, pancreas, and liver and its effects on the nervous system is most interesting.
What these guys are saying, I gather, is that researchers up to now have been looking at large concentrations of chemicals - whereas it is the tiny amounts (IN CONJUNC-TION WITH other tiny amounts of other chemicals, perhaps) that cause a tremendous amount of genetic "mayhem".
I first looked up all I could on Intersexuals - couldn't find what I wanted. So I sent out an SOS on all my Disability e-lists and was told to search for the words "Social Ecology". From there I got onto the "World Wildlife Fund, Canada", which took me to the "Natural Resources Defence Council" in the USA, which in turn led me to the scientists Vom Saal and Krimsky. Krimsky's work was only published last year!
If anybody wants to read my essay (and/or 100 pages of downloaded stuff - 60 on Intersexuals and about 40 on pesticides & the endocrine system) I'll gladly send it to you. If any of you want to persuade people to vote for minor political parties like the Greens, Socialists or Independants (or vote at all !), it may help to persuade people...
I don't know whether you will receive this message. I always like to hear that my message has been received, having heard horror stories. So if you would confirm this, I would be most grateful. Just "Thanks" in the subject line would do until you get the time to answer more fully if you feel it is necessarry/wish to...
Jai Guru Dev; Yours Sincerely,
"Sundari [pronounced Soon-{like lun in lunatic}-DHE-ree" (my e-mail name)].
PS. I thought you might be interested in the following list of names from the 2nd half of my essay.
Dr. Enrico Alleva
Head, Behavioral Pathophysiology Section
Lab. Fisiopatologia di Organo e di Sistema
Instituto Superiore di Sanita
Rome, Italy.
Dr. John Brock
Chief - PCBs and Pesticides Laboratory
Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control
Atlanta, GA, US.
Dr. Abraham Brouwer
Associate Professor and
Toxicology and Research Coordinator
Department of Toxicology
Agricultural University
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Dr. Theo Colborn
Senior Program Scientist
Wildlife and Contaminants Project
World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC, US.
Dr. M. Cristina Fossi
Professor
Dept. of Environmental Biology
University of Siena
Siena, Italy.
Dr. Earl Gray
Section Chief
Developmental and Reproductive
Toxicology Section
U.S. EPA
Research Triangle Park, NC, US.
Dr. Louis Guillette
Professor
Dept. of Zoology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, US.
Peter Hauser, MD
Chief of Psychiatry
Psychiatry Service (116A)
Baltimore VAMC
10 North Greene Street
Baltimore, MD, US.
Dr. John Leatherland
Professor, Chair
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Ontario Veterinary College
University of Guelph
Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Neil MacLusky
Professor
Director Basic Research
Division of Reproductive Science
Toronto Hospital
Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Antonio Mutti
Professor
Laboratory of Industrial Toxicology
University of Parma Medical School
Parma, Italy.
Dr. Paola Palanza
Researcher
Dept. of Biology and Physiology
University of Parma
Parma, Italy.
Dr. Stefano Parmigiani
Professor
Dept. of Evolutionary and Functional Biology
University of Parma
Parma, Italy.
Dr. Susan Porterfield
Professor
and Associate Dean of Curriculum
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA, US.
Dr. Risto Santti
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy
Institute of Biomedicine
University of Turku
Turku, Finland.
Dr. Stuart A. Stein
Associate Professor of
Neurology, Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics-Gynecology,
and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, FL,
US and Chief of Neurology
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Orange, CA, US.
Dr. Frederick vom Saal
Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO, US
Dr. Bernard Weiss
Professor
Dept. of Environmental Medicine
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY, USA
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