tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36128260.post8858915411277630149..comments2023-03-30T03:40:44.206-07:00Comments on Paternal Age Effect: How Old is Too Old?: By 35 many more damaged sperm Sperm Abnormalities Correlate With Age: Presented at ASRMconcerned hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14987948292416367555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36128260.post-45318921201142048302007-11-20T13:50:00.000-08:002007-11-20T13:50:00.000-08:00What I say to this article is hogwash!!! I've rea...What I say to this article is hogwash!!! I've read other related studies and many of them state that the availabe epidemiologic evidence of a paternal age effect for birth defects is sparse and is largely based on small studies of a few specific defects, including rare dominant conditions. Such studies have stated that identical birth defects seem to be highly prevailant with teen fathers, so where does getting older come into play? See http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1044-3983(199505)6%3A3%3C282%3APAATRO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z<BR/>Anti-psychiatry groups have found evidence that shizophrenia is a bogus mental illness that American psychiatrists fabricated to line their own pockets, so that on its own would place this study into question. One time when I was working as a customer service representative at a call center, some man in his eighties started flapping his jaws off about this so-called study about older fathers, and I get so annoyed with him that I refused to have anything more to do with him. I've met many people whose fathers were over 35 when they were born, and not one of them had Down Syndrome or any of the birth defects mentioned in this article. Moreover, you never heard about this nonsense 10 or 20 years ago, so what's the benefit of throwing it at us now? And why does it seem to be most promoted in the United States of America but nowhere else in the world?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com