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posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 28 2017, @03:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the children-of-soy dept.

The BBC reports that sperm quality continues to drop. Specifically, researchers "found a 52.4% decline in sperm concentration, and a 59.3% decline in total sperm count in men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand." While alarmist publications tout this as a 60% drop, the decline is accelerating and the researchers are concerned that inaction may lead to species extinction despite the effect not being observed in regions with high machismo, such as South America, Asia and Africa.

The study "aggregates 185 studies between 1973 and 2011, one of the largest ever undertaken." It supposedly overcomes selection bias occurring from patients attending fertility (virility?) clinics and selection bias of null results not being published in journals (churnals?). My intuition is that insights can be gained from studying transsexualism. Practitioners claim patients increase at the rate of 15% per year (doubling every five years), over many decades and with no end in sight. This is akin to Moore's law, Kryder's law, Butters' law, Hendy's law, Rider's law, Carlson's law or any other exponential halving or doubling. So, it doesn't take a genius to understand that it will become an increasingly widespread issue.

Regardless, masculine medical problems are vastly under-represented. By some estimates, spending on male medical problems is about 1/4 of spending on female medical problems. For example, when a man seeks help for a legitimate medical issue, such as declining testosterone, a patient at the lower end of the "normal" range may be denied treatment even if he is constantly exhausted.

Well, take care of yourself. Eat properly. Drink properly. Rest properly. Stay active. And if healthy food and exercise won't fix accumulated problems, consider hormone replacement. You may also want to watch two films which seem to be mentioned with increasing frequency and seem to predict our era with some accuracy: Children Of Men and Colossus: The Forbin Project. Children Of Men is the second bleakest film I've ever seen and the film I've seen most during its initial cinema release. It explores the scenario of global infertility leading to economic collapse. In addition to a nexus of cast and crew, the seamless plot and astounding compositing, the film is a fantastic example of mise-en-scène which is best explained by example.

Anyhow, enjoy the films and get your medical problems addressed.

Disclosure: People in my family are affected by virility and hormone problems. I have a professional interest in film, media encoding and art education.


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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:14AM (14 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:14AM (#545601)

    http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/australian-women-need-us-to-fertilise-them-halal-chief-slams-white-men-in-facebook-rant/news-story/ec80593236bd78ebdaeedfce2b1d65b6 [news.com.au]

    "The head of the Halal Certification Authority says Australian women need Muslim men to fertilise them to “keep them surrounded by Muslim babies”, declaring that the “white race will be extinct” in 40 years.

    Mohamed Elmouelhy made the comments on Facebook in response to a study by researchers from the Hebrew University, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, which found declining fertility rates among men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

    “According to the Hebrew University, Australian men [sic] sperm count has declined by 52 per cent over the last 40 years so your men are a dying breed, Australian women need us to fertilise them and keep them surrounded by Muslim babies while beer swilling, cigarette smoking, drug injecting can only dream of what Muslim men are capable of,” Mr Elmouelhy wrote in a Facebook comment, which was first reported by The Daily Mail and has since been deleted.

    “If the country is left to the bigots the white race will be extinct in another 40 years. Muslims have a duty to make your women happy because you are declining, better go chose [sic] a plot for yourself at your local cemetery. If you can’t afford it, commit suicide it is a cheaper alternative for bigots.”"

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:21AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:21AM (#545605)

    How is it that muslims are not bigots?

    From wikipedia:
    Prejudice is an affective feeling toward a person or group member based solely on their group membership. The word is often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, feelings toward people or a person because of their sex, gender, beliefs, values, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race/ethnicity, language, nationality, beauty, occupation, education, criminality, sport team affiliation or other personal characteristics. In this case, it refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership

    If this bigot hates Australian men so much why does he stay here?

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:32AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:32AM (#545610)

      It just isn't, stop inquiring into this line of thought, or else.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:35AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:35AM (#545612)

        Or else what?

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:39AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:39AM (#545613)

          Or else I'll fertilize you.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:02PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:02PM (#545737)

            You will shove your dick up my ass?
            We call that rape here.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:36PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:36PM (#545848)

              Nono, its ok see, he ISN'T muslim.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:41PM (#546324)

      Isn't implying that all muslims are bigots, itself a bigoted thing to do?

      This one surely is, but don't go lumping them all together.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @04:46AM (#545614)

    I like the Daily Mail's version [dailymail.co.uk] better. It's got 6 pictures! Go go Murdoch news!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @09:13AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @09:13AM (#545681)

      6 pictures of what? I am too afraid to click on the link.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:22PM (#545745)

        Nothing NSFW. The offensive facebook post. The picture of the person quoted.
        The article shows how racist this person is against "white" people

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:04PM (#545738)

    How is this trolling? Click the link. This is directly quoted from the head of halal certification authority who was responding to this article about sperm count.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @02:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @02:27PM (#545769)

    the “white race will be extinct” in 40 years.

    I fully expected it to be extinct by the end of January.

  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday July 28 2017, @05:05PM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday July 28 2017, @05:05PM (#545864) Homepage Journal

    This is the same guy who said Yassmin Abdel-Magied should be given a medal. She's fired! She should be deported. And he said Israel has apartheid. He's making a fool of himself on social media. A complete fool. What a loser! Very sad! He tried to friend me, he was bleeding very badly. I told him no!

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:20PM (#546278)

      Too late. She deported herself.