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Sunday, August 27, 2006
| Category: WHWTMSITW This article (not dated April 1) claims that: The genitals of polar bears in east Greenland are apparently dwindling in size due to industrial pollutants.They base this spectacularly useless conclusion on the study of 99 datapoints: Sonne and his colleagues looked at formaldehyde-preserved genitals from 55 male and 44 female east Greenland polar bears, collected from 1999 to 2002 by about 30 polar bear subsistence hunters regulated by the Greenland government.So these were polar bears that were slow enough to be caught. There might have been some selection going on right there. We. Have. Way. Too. Many. Scientists. In. This. World. |
