Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds

• EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When i die i want my brain plastic to be used for a warhammer figurine!

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• Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The methodology used to get that result is supposedly very questionable.

  I heard it here:

  Science Vs: Is There Really a Plastic Spoon in Our Brains?

  Not to minimize the impact of microplastics, but the credit card amount is probably way off.

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  • magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No offenses, but I’m gonna put a lot more weight behind a peer reviewed Nature paper, rather than some random podcaster.

    The explained their methodology pretty well. They extrapolate the microplastics amount from a small bit of cortical tissue, and compared it to previous results. Yeah there might not be as much in other parts of the brain, but we don’t have a reason to think it would be drastically different.

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