Stolen Future Chapter 5 and 6

                                                                Discussion Questions

1.) What problems did DES  cause? (68)

2.) Twelve years after the advent the advent of these compounds, researchers as Syracuse University learned what? (69)

3.) However much these two synthetic chemicals resemble each other, these impostors do not look like what? (69).

4.) Each hormone and its particular receptor have a "made for each other" attraction, which scientists describe as what? (71)

5.) What does the hypothalamus in the brain have and what does it allow the brain to do? (71)

6.) What is the analogy of the hormone and their receptors compared to? (72)

7.) The early 1940s seemed like a particularly promising time for the sheep ranchers in the gently rolling hills south of Perth in western Australia because of what three reasons? (75)

8.) After extensive detective work that involved not only the state agricultural specialists but federal scientists as will, researchers finally determined that the cause of the sterility epidemic was not to be found in poison or disease or a genetic defect, the actual cause was? (75).

9.) The more Hughes explored the notion that plants might be making contraceptives, the more evidence he found to be what? (77).

10.) What is Hughes background and his job? (77).

11.) What did Whitten find out about the exposure to plant estrogens early in life? (78).

12.) The pups in this experiment did not suffer obvious genital defects or other physical abnormalities in the reproductive tract as seen in the DES experiments, but they showed what? (78).

13.) To date, researchers have identified at least fifty-one synthetic chemicals-many of them ubiquitous in the environment- that disrupt the endocrine system in which way? (81).

14.) Most discussions of hormone-disrupting chemicals inevitably focuses on what? (81).

15.) As the number of hormone-disrupting chemicals mounts, what does it emphasizes? (81).