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by nucleardog 1066 days ago
If it's a single, acute exposure sure.

I'm no doctor or microbiologist or anything, but there definitely seems to be a strong connection between "things that cause cellular damage" and "increased risk of cancer with long term exposure".

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Yeah but cellular damage in the body is not the same as cellular damage in a petri dish.

I bet water kills cells in a petri dish. It's just a really useless test to do, that at absolute best gives a vague hint at something that may be true.

It's not useful to talk about in any capacity other than "let's explore this further with better experiments".

We don't know if it can be a long term exposure. We don't know at what rate they are expelled from a live person. And One thing is for sure. Cell Death that this experiment showed off at the unreasonbly hight concentration is still quite the opposite of Cancer. Cancer is Uncontrolled cell multiplication not death. So according to this we could use nanaplastics to kill cancer. See How easy it is to draw any conclussion that you want if you forget to factor the real conditions?