Moonbattery Applied to Toxicology

The observation that pollutants known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) interfere with hormones to produce unnatural sexual effects in frogs is thoughtcrime, because it stigmatizes people who exhibit analogous characteristics. A moonbat leaps forward to raise the alarm:

Scientists studying the effects of EDCs on frogs widely reported that individual frogs exposed to these chemicals displayed same-sex sexual behavior, exhibited both female- and male-marked phenotypes, and tadpoles changed sex during development, resulting in what researchers and journalists variously called “gay,” “intersex,” or “transgender” frogs (with “sad sex lives” to boot). Queerness was thus characterized as a bad outcome of toxic exposure…

Queerness must always be framed as good, because making it ubiquitous is an objective of liberal social engineers.

The scientific elites who codified toxicology occupied particular gender-, race-, and class-privileged social locations, positions that empowered them to grant themselves the authority to define what makes a toxicant safe…

I show that despite toxicologists’ best intentions, toxicology’s inherent biases undermine the usefulness of toxicological findings for environmental justice struggles by focusing on the environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology of EDCs, which is the sub-field fretting about feminized frogs.

With moonbats, the issue is never the issue; the issue is always moonbattery. The point here is not to keep people and animals safe from toxins. It is “environmental justice.”

Anything that does not advance the liberal agenda is “violence.” This includes toxicology:

The violent histories that EDC research unwittingly recites by deploying such terms as “demasculinization” and “chemical castration” is a form of violence in and of itself. By assuming and perpetuating the white supremacist and heteropatriarchal ideologies that queer, transgender, intersex, neurodivergent, and disabled bodies are somehow aberrant (read: abhorrent), the work of prominent EDC researchers and anti-toxics advocates reinforces social stigma as well as judicial, material, and biomedical inequity.

Stigma can be reduced through Critical Toxicity Studies:

Critical Toxicity Studies calls for a queer, ecofeminist study of toxicants that explicitly, carefully situates toxicants in their sociohistorical contexts, while simultaneously prefiguring a world where all bodies and identities—whether female, male, trans, intersex, disabled, queer, melanated, more-than-human, microbial, weedy, fungal, fishy, fat, young, old, sick, and so on—are fiercely, generously, handled with care.

If progressivism prevails, toxicologists will be replaced by wokesters with PhDs in Critical Toxicity Studies, who will righteously affirm the LGBT identity of chemically deformed frogs.

On a tip from Mike B.

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