Cross posted from: 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!
"It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Midnight@slrpnk.net to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe if you weren’t taking an extra five minutes in the shower, we wouldn’t have so much plastic in our organs!
Iapar@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Fr?
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
No, it’s a tactics used by the oil industry to shift the blame to the consumer.
echolalia@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
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The main paper in this article, the one claiming its human brain samples are 0.5% plastic, is preprint - not peer reviewed.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.
magikmw@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Inb4 we’re hunting uncontacted tribespeople to collect unpolluted samples, and they are also polluted.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Its in the rain so it wouldn’t surprise me at all
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Wow, a genuone high quality post from lemmy.ml instead of the usual authoritarian propaganda.
echolalia@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Hail satan, death to capitalism and American imperialism
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Wow, a calamity of epic proportions, who could’ve predicted it? /s But for real, plastic manufacturers have a lot to answer for.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yes, oil and it’s byproducts are indeed a blight on the world. At least the way we use them, anyway.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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)
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And the reward for the doofiest character design goes to…
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That sure sounds like some PEOPLE PROBLEMS!!!
Eh? Eh? I did the thing!
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
😏👉👉
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If plastic were so dangerous, would God have created it and put it everywhere? Literally our bottled water comes in it!? Typical alarmist bullshit.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Gonna make being cremated different.
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
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.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
just a planet full of mannequins
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You mean Body Worlds. And they’re not injected with resin, all liquid in their bodies is exchanged, turning the bodies literally into plastic.
Aeri@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A disaster of insane proportions and the thing being done is saying it’s scary. God I am tired peeps.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It keeps my joints nice and slippery
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s how we know we’re getting enough Vitamin P in our diets.
AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And guess who will deny this, call it “fake news,” and fight to give MORE power to plastic polluters? Can ya guess?
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The body is temple heretics
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
Will it be the Children of Men?