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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 748 days ago
The very ubiquity of microplastics coupled with the lack of definitive harm is pretty strongly suggestive that they are pretty innocuous as far as chemicals go.
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Something that doesn't get talked about very much - the exponential improvement in scientific equipment in the last few decades has vastly improved our ability to detect incredibly trace elements.
The harm is hard to assess without a control group.
If the harm is hard to assess, is it worth caring about? At some point the effect becomes insignificant.
Hard to detect absolutely does not mean insignificant.

It was hard to detect population-scale lead poisoning too.

Hard to discern. But you already knew that.
Sure, just like lead.