[zonkerdonker]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8#:~:text=O...

Full article is paywalled, but the point remains. Point is that scale matters, obviously.

Almonds contain trace amounts of amygdalin, you can eat a handful of almonds every day of your life, but if I asked you to eat a kg in one sitting, you're not gonna have a good time.

Plastics have gone from niche to absolutely ubiqutous worldwide in ~100 years. Even if it turns out to be totally and completely harmless to humans and every other animal, wouldn't you want to know that for sure?

[userbinator]

Plastics have gone from niche to absolutely ubiqutous worldwide in ~100 years. Even if it turns out to be totally and completely harmless to humans and every other animal, wouldn't you want to know that for sure?

So have radio waves. There was a lot of paranoia back then, much like with plastics today, and a similar amount of studies showing that exposure to RF radiation causes cancer, but that has mostly died down as people realised the truth.

As time goes on, the harmlessness only proves itself.

[zonkerdonker]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x#:~:text=I...

>As time goes on, the harmlessness only proves itself.

I cant find any recently published study that /doesnt/ demonstate a link between microplastics exposure and adverse health effects. Please share if you have any

[userbinator]

There's already been plenty of articles here about how scientific publishing has gone post-truth. Remember the "black plastic" scare last year? The desire for "engagement" has infected them too; do you think "microplastics are harmless" papers would even be accepted in this current ideology-driven culture? It's all about making sensational headlines and "impactful research", no matter how far from the truth, they'll lie, p-hack, and exaggerate to get there.

[someothherguyy]

> Full article is paywalled

https://archive.ph/XJ7ug

It seems kind of crazy to look at history and believe that exogenous matter accumulating in tissues and cells doesn't have a negative effect, but I guess we have to wait to see.