Source: Report says Monsanto-linked pesticide is to blame for microcephaly outbreak – not Zika
Jeeze! I had just been talking about this last Friday. I was wondering aloud that the 3177 pregnant Columbian women infected with zika but no evidence of neurological damage in their fetuses had just eliminated the possibility that the Brazilian brain damaged children could be from zika.
I commented to my friend: what do they do if they have a mosquito infestation? They spray more insecticides everywhere –“it is probably the pesticides.”
The next morning I read that I was wrong, as usual.
They weren’t spraying insecticides all over the place, Brazil had been adding it to the freaking drinking water! And I wrote a long winded post where I called them dimwits! Go ahead and click on the link. Just hit the back button when you’re done.
Here is a graphic that was in a document produced by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control please look at it! The red dots are micro encephaly (brain damage). Large is Thousands, medium is hundreds, and small is tens of cases.
The entire country and all the pregnant women are exposed to zika and mosquitoes everyday and the only place there is micro encephaly is where they were _adding a chemical mosquito toxin to the freakin drinking water_.
Yesterday the article/study referring to the Monsanto linked insecticide pyroproxifen came out. To be fair, the company that makes pyroproxifen is only associated with Monsanto. Pyroproxifen is reportedly not produced by Monsanto itself.
Wikipedia also has a new section on this possible connection of pyroproxifen with the Brazilian birth defects. The Wikipedia section describes experts’ opinions that it would _not_ be plausible for the insecticide pyroproxifen to have caused the Brazilian Microencephalitic outbreak.
The opinions expressed by “experts” dismissing the possibility that the Brazilian birth defects are caused by Pyroproxifen are somewhat invalidated by the likelihood that many of these “experts” would be funded by chemical companies that have a monetary interest in the outcome. The Wikipedia arguments are well crafted and carefully presented, but the monetary contamination raises too many doubts in my mind. And they don’t explain the report that 3000+ pregnant women in Columbia have the virus but there are no signs of fetal brain damage. The Microencephalitic outbreak simply can’t be due to zika alone if the Columbian report is correct.
Why would the Wikipedia “experts” completely ignore the single most important clue that the brain damage cannot be caused by the virus? It might just be the old story of the cigarette companies funding research to show that cigarettes don’t cause cancer.
Adding to the unreliability of these Wikipedia comments, is the fact that some of the first to jump onto Wikipedia and provide “information” [smokescreens] are going to be people that have the most to lose if Monsanto’s stock suffers. In other words highly motivated completely _unbiased_ scientists working in the chemical pesticide field. Like this one. “the-true-inside-story-of-how-a-college-professor-sells-out-to-monsanto/” :-)
Seriously, I did not make up these headlines and don’t get me wrong! I love Wikipedia — after a story has had time to settle down.
In addition, none of these “experts” quoted in the Wikipedia article are neuroscientists (brain experts) or seem to be thinking about how much we don’t know about human brain development. Nor do they seem to be thinking about breakdown products of the pesticide. Virtually none of the pesticides produced today are adequately studied with respect to how they break down in the environment.
As I started thinking about possible breakdown products, it suddenly dawned on me that the insecticide in Brazil was likely added to chlorinated water. That started me thinking about chlorination byproducts of the insecticide. It could be that the chlorinated byproduct of pyroproxifen is more toxic to humans then the original pyroproxifen. I will bet that none of these pesticides have been studied in chlorinated tap water systems. Sigh! Scientific research labs generally use pure water in studies to avoid adding contamination unknowns, but that water is not chlorinated. And now I’m starting to wonder about UV filters on certain aquatic systems.
This story really, really, bothers me because I feel, that with all the ADH, autism and neurological diseases we have today, that we have poisoned an entire generation of kids. And the pain and suffering that our unthinking behavior generates is REAL … Children of thalidomide.
I am afraid that these extreme examples will become commonplace as our use of insecticides and herbicides — and the GMOs that drive higher and higher use of these toxins, increases.