Plastic Water Bottles Might Have Poisoned Ancient Californians

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This is another reminder of why research into public health and technology can be so important. These Chumash islanders were poisoning themselves with their plastic water bottles. With modern science we discover the poisonous effects and with modern technology we have less poisonous alternatives to this plastic.

I wonder what future research will tell us.

The article was pretty clear that the resulting toxin levels were not high enough to cause the problems seen in the skeletal remains.

It's an interesting theory, and I am glad they pursued it. But it appears to be a null result when attempting to explain their health decline.

Yeah, it would have been a more interesting if they had explained the Chumash decline.

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