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Collapsing male fertility: not enough seed to spill?
Is the future of the human race in danger from lack of sperm? PETER FROST reads a worrying new report
DIMINISHING RETURNS: Human sperm recorded using an optical microscopy technique, 3000x magnification for A4 picture format
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In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
IS it men who are to be the harbingers of the end of humanity as we know it? Before any readers hurry to email me saying I should have started that question “is it women and men who...” sorry you are premature (a word for reasons that will become clear I shall try to avoid in the rest of this article).
It is men only who are causing a potential disaster for the whole of the human species, although women and particularly babies — some as yet unborn — are certainly going to suffer too.
Quite simply, all across the world human male testicular equipment is falling down on the job and failing to produce enough live, fast swimming, go-for-it-lad sperm.
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