Pesticides Killing Sperm? Nope.

Pesticides Killing Sperm? Nope.

As usual, a thorough debunking of a current pseudo-science scare. Read on.

FOXNews.com

Though anti-pesticide activists (search) have tried for years to link pesticides with declining sperm counts, one key fact stands in their way -- there’s no evidence that sperm counts are even declining, much less that pesticides are involved.

In 1999, researchers published in the Journal of Urology (search) a review of all 29 studies from 1938 to 1996 reporting semen analyses of fertile men. They concluded, “there appears to be no significant change in sperm counts in the U.S. during the last 60 years.”