Threatening Sperm Counts News Today

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You might remember the novelist and celebrity Norman Mailer, the crazy uncle of the American literary scene. He had A Thing about plastic. In 1983 he confided to an interviewer: “I sometimes think there is a malign force loose in the universe that is the social equivalent of cancer, and it’s plastic. It infiltrates everything. It’s metastasis. It gets into every single pore of productive life. I mean there won’t be anything that isn’t made of plastic before long. They’ll be paving ...

In “Count Down,” Shanna Swan tells a story of declining sperm count, rising infertility and the possible extinction of the human species.