Cancer Specialist- Endocrine disruptors, mutagens in Gulf are "900 lb gorilla in room"

Dr. Michael Harbut is Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Environmental Cancer Program at Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Harbut is one of the foremost experts in the country on the health impact of petroleum products and dispersants. Unlike many of the "medical experts" in the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Harbut is not on BP's payroll, has not accepted any of BP's "research" grants, and is willing to speak the truth.

Here is a partial transcript of his research findings:

There is data that shows that some of the animal life, some of the fish life, may eat some of these petroleum products and there may be mutagens or carcinogens formed in the life form, in the fish, or the sea, living creatures, which ultimately could become food, in terms of mutagens and what are called endocrine disruptors.

Many of the chemicals in the petroleum mixture have been implicated as endocrine disruptors, meaning that they are recognized by the body as being hormones, most often female hormones.

There is discussion, and there is information in the literature which says that
the ingestion of agents which cause the creation of these endocrine disruptors may contribute to the epidemic in the US of early onset of menses, precocious puberty, and testicular abnormalities that we've seen in animal life.

Nobody knows for sure, but it's certainly the 900-lb gorilla in the room, along with the other two 900 lb gorillas being the mutagens and the carcinogens.

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[MrBuckwilliam]

and yet they are okaying some oyster beds and have okay'd crab fishing... i just hope everyone eating the seafood is safe