Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls, in what is thought to be nature's way of compensating for the fact that males were more likely to be killed hunting or in conflict.

But increasingly this ratio is slipping - it is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born girls in the U.S. and Japan alone.

You would think that all this accumulating evidence would long since have sparked alarm in governments worldwide.

Far from it. When the EU drew up its first comprehensive controls on chemicals two years ago, it largely exempted gender benders from them.

Britain, under Tony Blair's leadership, was largely responsible for this exemption, and confidential documents show that it obediently acted to water down the controls following direct representations from the Bush administration - almost unbelievably putting the interests of foreign firms above the health of British children.

Since then, as Dr Gwynne Lyons, director of the expert group, CHEM Trust puts it, there has been "regulatory inertia".

That needs to change, and fast. If ministers continue wilfully to refuse to heed the science, they should, at least, listen to the starlings.



very interesting read!

So that explains why every class I've been in had more girls than guys.....

Ah. I can see it now that in the future armys will be made of just women fighting each other. Now that would be a sight. Screaming and pulling at each others hairs LOLOL. Sorry. The vision just cannot escape me.

I always thought the world would be better if we were all women. No, if YOU were all women and I was the only guy

So how bad would you feel then if you still couldn't get a date (just kiddin Gunmunky)

they have no choice..

I found this kinda interesting. Last December I was out Xmas shopping with my neighbour. I had my youngest son with me at the time. We stopped for lunch at this little chinese restuarant and the waitress took a real interest in my son who was just over a year old at the time. She asked me if I had any other children and I said yes that I had an older boy as well. She seemed to get excited saying that I was a very lucky person to have 2 boys...that in the last year only 30% of the babies born in our city were boys. I never thought anything bout it till I read this thread...just found it kinda weird.

You can imagine the technology changes to account for such wars...

Incoming Gucci bag.... That would disabled a few hundred women.

The Hologram Brad Pitt <insert other guys>.

Mobile units would be lost to history as no-one would be able to park or drive them.

The defence budget would just go through the roof as women look confused at how it cost so much.

I have never seen so many sexist comments in one thread!
The article is unconcerning, and I have read it.

lol dude i dont know what women you have seen go at it but i would NEVER EVER get inbetween 2 women fighting they are just brutal. more than just pulling hair and screaming, but i grew up in the "hood"

Whoa! imagine a world ware their are so few men the women practically through themselves at men! ( ) (probably not though)