Beware the Edamame

Jim Rutz of WorldNetDaily is FULL OF CRAP.

In a December commentary series on WorldNetDaily (or as it’s quite appropriately called by Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend, “WingNutDaily”), Rutz claims that Soy is making kids ‘gay’ (his quotes, not mine).

For anyone who is unfamiliar with WND, it’s ground zero for willfully ignorant bible thumping jackasses.  The same people who can’t reconcile evolution with their faith and selectively ignore science.  (Selectively meaning the science that makes them healthy and bears their infertile members children is fine, but anything that challenges the literal words in their favorite book is a no-no.)

If you’re interested in the commentary series, here is the link.  Either way, I’ve culled some of my favorite highlights from the series below, and commented on them.  I think you’ll agree they show that Jim Rutz is Full Of Crap.

“Though only 15 percent of us eat a mostly-soy product once a week, 55-70 percent of all processed foods in supermarkets now have some soy in them. You can’t escape it. Soybean oil accounts for a whopping 79 percent of the edible fats used annually in the U.S.”

Okay, so let’s think about this logic for a minute.  If 55-70 percent of all processed foods have soy in them, and assuming that almost all of us eat processed foods every day, and soy makes you gay, then close to 55-70 percent of us would be gay, too.  Or, since we’re all overweight as well, maybe 79% of us are gay (since 79% of edible fats are soybean oils).  Right?  I wish it were so – think of how much easier it would be to get laid!  (Hypothetically speaking of course, assuming I was single.)

“I simply did not have room to introduce all the biggest problems with soy and do it in a scientific, footnoted format.”

Translates as “I know that I’m full of shit and can’t back this up but I expect you to believe it anyway because it’s on World Net Daily, the Internet’s #1 destination for ignorant bible beating.”  By the way, he attempts to footnote later entries in the series, but his footnotes are completely inadequate and misleading, which is to be expected of WingNuts.

This might be my favorite though:

“The situation is just as bad for boys. Boy babies fed soy formula may go into puberty late — or not at all. Some of these boys are so feminized that their breasts grow but their penises don’t. Some mature into adults with penises not much bigger than the ones they were born with!”

Let me see if I understand this.  Over-consumption of soy causes icky gayness.  Over-consumption of soy causes teeny weenies and man-boobs.  Forgive me if I don’t believe this based on the anecdotal evidence of the average c*ck size of the American Gay Male (naturally I can’t discuss my methods of gathering that evidence *wink, wink*).  Also, the average gay male body is significantly more in shape with smaller boobs than the average hetero male body (myself excluded).  Oh wait, you mean those man-boobs on those shirtless guys dancing over there?  Those are called pecs…you get them from the gym.

“No study says that soy dooms a child to homosexuality, but it’s not hard to believe that at some point during pregnancy babies are hardwired for sexual preference.”

Wait a second.  Did I read that correctly?  Did he really just say that people might be born gay?  RED ALERT! RED ALERT!  BIBLE BEATER SAYS GAYS MAY BE BORN THAT WAY!!  QUICK, GET REVEREND TINKY-WINKY’S S.W.A.T. (Saving Wayward Anal Thrusters) TEAM ON THE HORN AND QUICK!

“Right now, no evidence indicates that soy during childhood or adulthood is likely to change sexual preference. The danger zone is the first three months of both pregnancy and infancy, when male physiology and brain circuitry are still developing.”

So soy is most dangerous (read as: most likely to make you a homo) when you’re being fed in utero and/or by bottle after birth.  In other words, blame the Mother.

“…but I do care if 300 million fellow Americans turn into walking blobs because they were conned into thinking soy is the best weight-loss food since the celery and water diet.”

Right – because the fact that we’re a nation of fatties has everything to do with soy and nothing to do with the fact that we’re a bunch of lazy-ass couch potatoes that sit behind a desk all day and in front of the TV all night.

Once again, Jim Rutz is Full Of Crap.

But what is really scary is the number of people who no doubt believe every word.