"It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs
"It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs
Cross posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12562892
Don't forget everyone... It's not the manufacturers fault, it's YOURS for not recycling properly and not reusing your packaging that comes with every purchase!
I tried to write the most biased scaremongering paper about microplastics for a college course and I couldn’t find much directly linking human health to microplastics that was peer reviewed.
The main paper in this article, the one claiming its human brain samples are 0.5% plastic, is preprint - not peer reviewed. So, reporting on it like this is unethical tbh.
Truthfully, scientists have been looking for this sort of link in animals, and they can’t find earthshaking evidence of it. Most of the papers I found showed weak evidence of harm to animals. Most of the scarier papers have to do with how these plastics absorb chemical pollution in sea water, fish then eat the particles and are harmed. These papers point out they have trouble separating general harm from pollution from harm from microplastics pollution.
Microplastics don’t seem to go up the food chain either, seems most plastics people eat are introduced through processing it. So, stop eating processed food. Stop wearing polyester while you’re at it, a lot of microplastics come from laundry.
I’m not saying microplastics aren’t bad for human health. It’s just incredibly hard to study and it’s definitely not as bad as lead or asbestos. If it was, scientists would have found that link already.
The worst news I ran across was that there is no human control group for this stuff. Everyone is full of microplastics. Those are the only peer reviewed human studies this article mentions - the sort that are like “Of samples from 20 different people, they were all full of plastics! We need grant money for more study”.
I hope they get that grant money.
Wow, a genuine, high quality post from lemmy.ml instead of the usual authoritarian propaganda.
Hail satan, death to capitalism and American imperialism
Wow, a calamity of epic proportions, who could’ve predicted it? /s
But for real, plastic manufacturers have a lot to answer for.
Oh come on, micro plastics are organic compounds how bad can they really be? I mean essentially they are made from dinosaurs, and dinosaurs are cool right? Plus, thing of all the cool things you can do being more flexible! Not to mention, society is far too reliant on them for you to cut our profits enough to really care about the consequences! Besides, there's no known way to remove them from your body, so might as well enjoy it while we have it! (/s)
That sure sounds like some PEOPLE PROBLEMS!!!!
Eh? Eh? I did the thing!
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If plastic were so dangerous, would God have created it and put it everywhere? Literally our bottled water comes in it!? It's even in our organs! Typical alarmist bullshit.
A disaster of insane proportions and the thing being done is saying it's scary. God I am tired peeps.
Gonna make being cremated smell different.
Ooh. Cremation is gonna get more expensive if they have to put pollution filters on the chimneys due to all the burning plastic.
Eventually it'll be like cremating people from that Bodies exhibit. The one where they have bodies that have been injected with some kind of resin to preserve them for anatomy study.
It keeps my joints nice and slippery
And guess who will deny this, call it "fake news," and fight to give MORE power to plastic polluters? Can ya guess?