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Science: Men Who Do Chores Less Likely To Have Kids
By Brian FairbanksNovember 16th, 2009, 5:00 pmComments (3)
The most controversial story to appear in any newspaper over the weekend was about... household chores. Seriously, the Daily Mail ran an innocuous story about how a recent study revealed that men who do a lot of work around the house are less likely to reproduce and you would think they'd threatened to kill Christ the minute He comes back.
Apparently, all those electromagnetic waves that Lost has been warning us about are real!
A study has found that household chores – including using a vacuum cleaner or microwave oven – could reduce a man’s chances of having children.
Researchers exposed male volunteers to electromagnetic fields – high doses of which are produced by all electrically charged objects, including refrigerators and vacuum cleaners – and found such exposure could double the risk of having poor-quality sperm.
Fertility expert Dr De-Kun Li said his work provides the first evidence of a link between electrical goods and declining male fertility. [Daily Mail]
We have a bad feeling that someone's going to comment on this saying: "Yes! We don't want kids, so now I have another excuse for telling my hubby to clean up the place..."
Commentarium (3 Comments)
Woo! Safe! I do plenty of housework, BUT: We don't have a microwave.
And how is this science? Wouldn't males using ANY EM-producing devices (i.e. phones, computers, televisions) have this problem? I would think laptops--by virtue of their placement on the lap--would be the worst offenders.
But I'm *still* safe in that case: I use desktops.
Mop my floor, bitch! Then make me a sammich.
"Mop my floor" - never heard it called that before. Seriously though, Daily Mail and Science don't mix!