Abduction Digest, Number 74
 
                          Monday, September 21st 1992
 
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Today's Topics:
 
                                   Environment
                                Selection Factors

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From: John.Rhodes@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG (John Rhodes)
Subject: Environment
Date: 14 Sep 92 07:09:00 GMT

I found this interesting article that seems to confirm some
alien statements reported by abducties.
Article in ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS 11 Sept. 1992 pg.3


SPERM COUNTS DECLINING, GLOBAL STUDY INDICATES
Environment to blames,
fertility experts suggest.
Associated Press
   LONDON-Average sperm count in healthy men has dropped by half
in the past 50 years, according to a global review of 61 studies
covering 14,947 men.
     Experts say the study, directed by Dr. Niels Skakkebaek, of
the University of Copenhagen, lends credence to speculation that
environmental pollutants may damage production of sperm cells.
     "I think there is cause for concern," said Dr. Richard Sharpe,
a respected reproductive biologist at the University of Edinburgh.
"If there is something in our environment having an effect that is
drastic enough to decrease sperm count by 50%, we should know what
this factor is."
     Conflicting results have emerged from previous studies.
Skakkebaek, whose findings are published in the Sept 13 issue of
the British Medical Journal, said his review was the first to
collect worldwide statistics and limit the analysis to healthy men.
     "It would have to be something in the environment or
lifestyle." said Skakkebaek. a professor of growth and
reproduction. "Changes that occur within a generation could hardly
be due to a change in genetic background."
     He said a woman's exposure to environmental toxins during
pregnancy may thwart development of a male fetus' sperm cells.
     Skakkebaek said investigators had reviewed all international
scientific studies on semen analysis of healthy men from 1938 to
1990. They found average sperm count declined from 133 million
sperm per milliliter in the 1940's to 60 million per milliliter in
the 1990's.
     Men who have fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter are
considered infertile.
     Dr. Mark Cullen, director of occupational and environmental
medicine at Yale University, noted that a few studies suggest that
stress may slow sperm production.
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From: Vince.Johnson@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Vince Johnson)
Subject: Selection Factors
Date: 16 Sep 92 23:13:00 GMT

If I'm not mistaken, Adrenachrome was an invention by Dr. Hunter S. 
Thompson to describe the ultimate drug experience. I assumed he was 
joking...
Regards,
Vince
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