From Frogs to Humans?

The local ABC affiliate in San Francisco has a piece out about UC Berkeley frog researcher Tyrone Hayes and his provocative theories linking pesticides to the disappearance of the African Clawed Frog. Despite repeatedly misspelling "atrazine," the piece has some interesting quotes from government and independent researchers about this ubiquitous and nasty herbicide that the EPA can't seem to find the balls to regulate. For more on atrazine, go here.

"If you are a male frog exposed to attrazine at very low ecologically relevant levels you become a hermaphrodite," said Professor Hayes.

And because frogs share some similar genes with humans, he worries attrazine may have an affect on humans as well.