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 2 months agoIt’s up to a credit card now (9g)
Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk 2 months ago
When i die i want my brain plastic to be used for a warhammer figurine!