The Onion’s InfoWars Site Is Selling Plushies That Are Turning the Frickin’ Frogs Gay

The Onion’s InfoWars Site Is Selling Plushies That Are Turning the Frickin’ Frogs Gay

For some reason, even my most offline friends seem to have heard the viral clip of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones shouting about the chemicals in our water supply that are making the frogs gay. The claim, most memorably made in a 2015 broadcast on his show InfoWars, is of course misleading: The herbicide atrazine doesn’t so much turn frogs gay as it does forcibly feminize them, and there’s no reason to believe it affects humans in the same way a…