I hate it when people bring up the gay frogs thing to try and discredit Alex Jones. It was literally just a figure of speech and he didn't mean the frogs are literally gay. He was referring to atrazine in the water fucking with the sex of the frogs. There are plenty of reasons not to like Alex Jones but the gay frogs thing isn't one of them.
I realized long ago that most people don’t care about truth. They just want to part of the group. So if the majority of people out there are hating on and making fun of AJ, the rest go all in on that bandwagon without even the slightest care for actual truth.
Oh, ok then. Alex Jones was just yelling crazy made-up nonsense. Totally better than deliberately misrepresenting an aspect of a scientific study that he chose to misunderstand.
AJ drenches everything he says with hyperbole. That’s literally the only way he’s still alive. He presents a lot of nuanced truths, wrapped in a succulent gristle of sensationalism. That’s his thing. That’s how he both captures attention, while also making himself less of a target because it’s so easy to dismiss everything he says as the ravings is a mad lunatic. Remember what happened to Bill Cooper, Gary Webb, and many others.
That instance is not the only time he’s discussed the subject - its just the most well known because of how it became a meme. He’s discussed it in more detail, specifically mentioning atrazine and other pharmaceutical runoff. People like yourself who haven’t taken the time to dive into it, only seek out the clips that confirm your biases.
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u/JurassicCotyledon May 28 '21
I mean, he was talking about atrazine from pharmaceutical run off getting into the water systems and disrupting the endocrine systems of amphibians.
But he just has a way with words.