From this article, worrying about brain changes brought on by BPA exposure:
Might boys in the U.S. grow up to have poorer spatial skills—and, because it's linked, weaker mathematical ability? Might they have little interest in exploring the world, preferring to hang out at home?
Or - just a crazy thought - might boys in the U.S. hang out at home because of overprotective mothers, social standards and laws that treat the youthful hijinks of my day as the serious crimes of today, medical advice to prevent youngsters from exposing their skins to the deadly rays of the Daystar, and countless overblown threats of the big wide world out there, played up by the sensationalist press?
Throw in "Public property - no trespassing" signs on most of the little patches of no-man's-land where small boys might have started exploring in an earlier age, general prohibitions against venturing off the official trails or touching the lakes and streams in public parks, and all the other restrictions on leaving the beaten path... what's to explore?
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