Professor Claims Smoking or Drinking During Pregnancy Makes Your Babies Gay

According to the UK Daily Mail, a new book claims that smoking or drinking during pregnancy can make your baby gay, among other factors. If true, the book’s findings could make for some very interesting warning labels, but that’s not even the best part of this story. Neither is the prospect of whatever baby gaydar the guy used to test his theory. No, the best part would be the name of the book’s author, which is, I am not kidding you, Dick Swaab. From the UK Daily Mail:

A controversial new study claims that decisions made by women when they are pregnant can affect their babies brains including determining their sexuality, intelligence and chances of developing autism.

The suggestion that the lifestyle of an expectant mother can affect their offspring’s development has been put forward in Professor Dick Swaab’s new book We Are Our Brains.

The professor of neurology at Amsterdam University claims that the chance of having a child who is gay can be determined by a range of factors including how stressed pregnant women are as well as whether they smoke and their exposure to amphetamines.

It’s hard to know who the audience for this study even is; people who kept smoking and drinking while pregnant when it meant they might kill their unborn children, but can’t stand the thought of a gay one? Or is it people so desperate for a gay baby that they’re willing to risk the low birthweight and fetal alcohol syndrome. Or maybe it’s for people who don’t care either way, and just want to know What to Expect When You’re Expecting and still Want to Look Cool.

One thing is for sure: this book does conclusively prove what happens when you name your kid Dick Swaab.

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[h/t] UK Daily Mail
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