So they took the outliers out of the study, and they still had a highly significant result. A sizeable proportion of the children in the study were affected. Also, I guess you've read recently about the increases in what are called hypospadias. Boys with hypospadias are born with a urethra that doesn't come out of the end of the penis. Now the penis and the urogenital tract have to start growing at the same time.
Hormones have to be really right in tune.
This kind of a problem has more than doubled in the US, between 1970 and 1993. And that's about one in 100 boys on the average. Some places, the incidence is as high as one in 50 boys. I've had physicians and nurses tell me that this is a highly unreported event. If this gets onto a child's health record, the insurance companies will be reluctant to insure them, because these boys have a much greater risk of developing testicular cancer and a greater likelihood of fertility problems.