Without spending too much of my time digging into the crazy, some of those do have some tiny kernel of truth or adjacency to truth that gets twisted.
Corn Flakes -
The foods Kellogg developed also tended to be bland. In this, Kellogg followed the teachings of
Ellen G. White and
Sylvester Graham who recommended a diet of bland foods to minimize excitement, sexual arousal, and masturbation.
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Several
popular misconceptions falsely attribute various cultural practices, inventions, and historical events to Kellogg.
[11][12] These include false claims that
Kellogg's corn flakes were invented or marketed to prevent masturbation. In reality, they were promoted to prevent indigestion.
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Frogs -
Abstract
The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly applied pesticides in the world. As a result, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water. Atrazine is also a potent endocrine disruptor that is active at low, ecologically relevant concentrations. Previous studies showed that atrazine adversely affects amphibian larval development. The present study demonstrates the reproductive consequences of atrazine exposure in adult amphibians. Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults. Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs.