I Don’t Believe That They Believe This

A lot has been written about the lack of education of many conservatives, it makes you wonder what they learned in school and college.

The far-right thinks Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers will literally turn men into women
They think eating a plant-based burger will cause men to grow boobs, decrease the size of their genitals, and cause sexual confusion and homosexuality.
LGBTQ Nation
By Daniel Villarreal
December 30, 2019

Fans of far right-wing media are spreading the untrue (and somewhat transphobic) rumor that Burger King’s plant-based Impossible Whopper contains enough of the female hormone estrogen to make cisgender men grow breasts.

The rumor started because of an article written by James Stangle, a South Dakota veterinarian, and printed in Tri-State Livestock News, a publication that generally opposes plant-based meat substitutes as harmful to livestock farmers’ businesses. Stangle wrote, “An Impossible Whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular Whopper.”

Wow! “...impossible Whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular Whopper.”

18 million times nothing is still nothing.

There is such small amounts of estrogen in soybeans that you cannot eat enough Impossible Whoppers to effect you in anyway. (Just think that if this was true we wouldn't have to be taking expensive estrogen everyday, we would just need to eat a couple of Impossible Burgers)

New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle told the publication that Asian men and boys have been eating large amounts of soy for centuries and, “No, they don’t grow breasts.” Any guy who might grow breasts in response to eating large amounts of soy could just have an extremely rare sensitivity to phytoestrogens, she adds.

But still the conservatives are quaking in their boots.

But that hasn’t stopped right-wing publications and commenters from repeating Stangle’s lie. Conservative news outlets like the National File and MichaelSavage.com have republished articles repeating it as fact, and far-right Twitter users are amplifying the lie with some occasional transphobic comments.

And then we have this idiot Republican from last winter…

Texas lawmaker says he's not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics'
USA TODAY
By Ashley May
February 27, 2019

Texas state representative Bill Zedler says a resurgence of measles across the U.S. isn't worrying him.

Zedler, R-Arlington, is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.

“They want to say people are dying of measles. Yeah, in Third World countries they’re dying of measles,” Zedler said, the Texas Observer reports. “Today, with antibiotics and that kind of stuff, they’re not dying in America.” 

However…

There is no treatment for measles, a highly contagious virus that can be fatal. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and can't kill viruses. 

You have to wonder what he was doing in science class?

This is on the same level as the Republicans who say women can’t get pregnant from a rape unless they want to or the Ohio legislature passing a bill to make it a law to transplant an ectopic pregnancy which is medically impossible.

These are the idiot who are trying to pass or are passing draconian laws that criminalizing women for controlling their bodies, to criminalize us, who think AIDS/HIV as a “Gay Disease”, and are passing healthcare laws that goes against medical science.