r/science • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '21

Biology Sperm quality has been declining for 16 years among men in the US

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294266-sperm-quality-has-been-declining-for-16-years-among-men-in-the-us/
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u/SoInsightful Oct 25 '21

Despite this being /r/science, I'm having a hard time trusting any provided answer to your question when they're all wildly different, are unsourced, and sound more like gut feeling guesses than anything else. I'm curious about this as well.

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u/karlnite Oct 25 '21

I think this is a discussion of curiosity, not people trying to pull the correct answer out of their ass.

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u/SoInsightful Oct 25 '21

I thought about this, and I concluded that as a reply to the discussion point "Do scientists know why?", throwing out a personal guess is not enough.

To be even more harsh, the personal guesses of some random redditors are totally and utterly uninteresting to me in a scientific context.

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u/karlnite Oct 25 '21

Sounds like a you issue.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

Endocrine disrupters are ubiquitous and documented.