The Vanishing Male deals with one of humanity’s most important and least publicized problems: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.
Rates of boys and young men with genital malformations, low sperm counts, abnormal sperm and testicular cancer have risen steadily and dramatically in recent decades.
Meanwhile, boys are now more likely to develop ADHD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, cerebral palsy and dyslexia.
Gone Men takes a disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect behind these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world.
Found in shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpets, cosmetics, and baby bottles, they’re known as “hormone-like” or “endocrine disruptors,” and they may start disrupting the most fundamental building blocks of human development.
