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According to the Huffington Post, Alex Jones thinks that they do:
[Jones] claims the government is “encouraging homosexuality with chemicals so that people don’t have children” and that he has the documentation to prove it. Upon cutting open a juice box to show the plastic membrane supposedly filled with said chemicals he concludes, “After [little boys] are done drinking your juices, [they’re] ready to go out and have a baby… [they’re] ready to put together a garden of roses… [they’re] ready to go put lipstick on…”
After reading this article, my first question was: “Alex Jones—is he the lizard guy?” Then Google told me that, no, he is in fact not “the lizard guy.” (That would be David “Exposing the dreamworld we believe to be real” Icke.)
According to a not-very-scientifically-rigorous-sounding study performed by the Williams Institute, only “[a]n estimated 3.5% of adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and an estimated 0.3% of adults are transgender.” Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any data on juice box consumption, so statistical comparisons are out of the question. I’ve got some anecdotal evidence, though: between the ages of five and, oh, nine, I drank at least once juice box (“Capri Sun: Liquid Cool”) per day; as did almost every other child with whom I attended elementary school. (Ah, the Clinton era!)
Anyway, assuming that we’ve got a fairly small gay population outsized by a massive contingent of juice box consumers, I’m forced to conclude that the gay chemicals are either not there, or there but not doing what they were engineered to do.
I’d be curious to hear Jones’s, or anyone else’s, thoughts.
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Stan Redmond| 1.26.13 @ 2:30PM
They are kind of fruity....
Scott| 1.26.13 @ 2:57PM
That % of the population that's LGBT sounds similar to numbers I've heard (I'm old enough to remember the 10% number they used to trot out, but that's been discredited for a while now).
I've never heard about the juice boxes, though. Are you sure it wasn't fluoride in the water?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.26.13 @ 3:09PM
Until now, I thought that being sexually attracted to members of the same sex and acting on those impulses by having sex with members of the same sex made one gay (though I do recall the following Graffiti: "My Mother made me a homosexual. ""If I get her the material, will she make me one, too?").
If the juice theory is accurate, I would wonder what its variables are, e.g. would drinking those juices with the cardboard on the outside tend to make one more butch than the aseptic pouches would?
Occam's Tool| 1.28.13 @ 11:46PM
As the practicing psychiatrist here, allow me to say the following: what the F(*&^K? I mean, what the F*&^kety F^%&K?
Enjoy your juice boxes, folks. Jones, like Bowen, is a basket case of antisemitism and stupidity, with paranoid ideation towards straw-men (Zionists) while ignoring real problems (Iran's nuclear program).
There is NOTHING in the mainstream psychiatric literature on this. Nothing. And my dear Dai, there is nothing to wonder about with Mr. Bowen. I'm going upstairs to drink my OJ now.
C Bowen | 1.26.13 @ 4:49PM
Mr. Walther;
Are you seriously suggesting that you know nothing of the BPA controversy? Even if you don't believe it, you still must have heard about it, right?
Bob K| 1.26.13 @ 5:45PM
California is about to outlaw it.
http://www.scientificamerican......lth-hazard
NOW they finally believe Schwartzenegger when he said that the California legislature is filed with economic "girly men!"
Bob K| 1.26.13 @ 5:47PM
It's probably too late to save the state.
Bob K| 1.26.13 @ 5:48PM
And that would be "filled" with economic girly men.
chuck| 1.27.13 @ 8:24AM
BPA is a chemical that acts much like estrogen when ingested. It is in tin cans, plastic bottles, plastic liners, and all sorts of other assorted products. It has been linked to low sperm-count, and "man-boobs".
So men, if your boobs are bigger than your wife's, and you're having trouble getting her knocked up, start drinking your beer from a GLASS bottle.
7-08| 1.27.13 @ 5:22AM
Depends on how you open them. I shoot the tops off of mine with my 1911 which has Kate Upton relief carved in the grips.
spike59| 1.28.13 @ 5:44AM
we're seriously discussing something brought up by ALEX JONES???? did i miss the "Tinfoil Hat Day" announcement?
Dai Alanye | 1.28.13 @ 12:30PM
Alex Jones is a complete and total psych job.
And I'm beginning to wonder about Bowen.