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> This is the third time this week I've seen a study related to microplastics

Most of Science is utter junk, driven by the willingness or desperate effort to publish anything to make a career in academia or funded by special interests.

What matters is what can be consistently replicated, observed and explained.

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what special interest benefits from showing negative impacts to mps? you've got to think who has the most to lose our gain. This is a more trustworthy study because usually showing negatives about huge entrenched products is fought by the special interests like plastic/oil companies, or DuPont in the case of Teflon aka forever chemicals.

Though I think worrying about it is fruitless as we're more likely to solve global warming than get all the Chemicals and plastic out of our blood globally, and that's worth the worry because there are at least things we can do to mitigate things(assuming political will ever signs)

It’s not trustworthy until dozens of independent labs across several countries can validate it.

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