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Last night around 100 people came to the Science Center to hear senior scientist of the World Wildlife Fund Dr. Theo Colborn speak on the dangers of chemicals in the environment around the Great Lakes...
...Colborn is the co-author of the recently published book Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story...
...Colborn's research in the Great Lakes region led her to write the book, she said. Last night she discussed some of the issues of her work...
...evidence for a chemical-infertility link does remain largely circumstantial. "There is no smoking gun," admits J.P. Myers, who is director of the environmentalist W. Alton Jones Foundation and one of the book's co-authors. (The others are science reporter Dianne Dumanoski and World Wildlife Fund zoologist Theo Colborn...
...conference gave rise to numerous collaborations, and participants began trading lab samples with one another and with a growing number of additional interested scientists. "We had gonads flying around the country," says Colborn. As the researchers compared notes, the evidence began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence...