>>5367287>/important thread relevant/The CHAMACOS study, cited above, is the biggest endocrine disruptor study on humans to date that also seems to be unbaised.
The studies are done on one given population(Mexican-Americans in the state of California, ie the ethnicity that is living in rural areas close to pesticide spreading areas) and has been going on for around 20 years.
It seems to tie the rise in autism and lowering of IQ to prenatal and early life exposure to endocrine disruptors present in furnitures as flame retardant and in pesticides.
>AtrazineAtrazine, famous to most of us, leads to the feminization of batracians.
>TribultylinTributyltin seems to have a similar effect on fishes. But instead of leading to feminization, it leads to masculinization.
> 4-nonylphenol4-nonylphenol causes a deterioration of male reproductive organs, as well as a significant augmentation in kidney size by 3 in rats. It also had carcinogenic effects in the whole body and led to a significant weight gain.
>PBDEsPBDEs are chemicals used as flame retardant in the whole world.
It was mandatory to apply PBDE on furnitures sold in the USA.
The conclusions of the Chamaco study will explain the probable effects of the chemical.
>Both prenatal and childhood PBDE exposures were associated with poorer attention, fine motor coordination, and cognition in the CHAMACOS cohort of school-age children. This study, the largest to date, contributes to growing evidence suggesting that PBDEs have adverse impacts on child neurobehavioral development. 
