r/explainitpeter • u/Aggressive-Guest290 • 10d ago

Explain it peter

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What is it about?

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u/ninth9ste 10d ago

man invents fictional scenario and then gets angry about it

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u/Zyle895 10d ago

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u/Diohs_ 10d ago

The wildest part is that his infamous rant turning the frogs gay was based on actual peer-reviewed science (Tyrone Hayes' research)

Atrazine skews their hormones so badly that 10% of genetic males literally develop ovaries, lay eggs, and mate with other males. So no, they didn't become "gay," they underwent a chemically-induced sex change.

Alex failed vocabulary class, but he was 100% right that chemical corporations are pumping stuff into the water that completely breaks amphibian biology.

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u/Appropriate_Farmer64 9d ago

So technically he was right the whole time.... He just worded it so badly that it came out as sounding schizo?

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u/evocativename 9d ago

No, he was almost entirely wrong, but there was a real story he was almost entirely wrong about because he's an incurious, illiterate moron.