New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour • Hacker News Board

Re: New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

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Post by andric » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

DrThunder wrote: post #251

andric wrote: post #23

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And Long COVID is shaping up to be our generation’s HIV/AIDS. History rhymes because people don’t ever learn. We deal with one problem or crisis at a time, instead of generalizing what was learned in order to help future generations avoid the same mistakes.

Long COVID isn't even legitimate and if it was it's not anywhere near the fatality rate of HIV/AIDS.

It is legitimate.

See:

[0] https://covid19.nih.gov/covid-19-topics/long-covid

[1] Davis, H.E., McCorkell, L., Vogel, J.M. et al. Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2#citeas

Re: New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

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Post by dang » Sun, Sep 03, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

dennis_jeeves1 wrote: post #381

saberience wrote: post #225

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Obesity is caused by eating too much. If you don’t eat then you won’t gain weight, there is no subverting the laws of thermodynamics. It sounds callous but if you go to Africa or visit a prisoner of war camp you won’t find many fat people and so blaming chemicals in America for so many fat people doesn’t make much sense to me.

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Re: New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

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Post by avgcorrection » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #313

avgcorrection wrote: post #282

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The tunnel-vision on this subject is truly astounding. I can't think of any subject that is treated in the same way. Say that someone was failing at university because they have no motivation. And they have no motivation because they have depression. Then a vocal minority would always butt in with the following truism: - Failing university courses is caused by not studying enough. There is no subverting the fact that…

As someone who struggled with depression at university, I'd say that's the only useful advice. "I am failing because I am not studying enough." Granted, I could introspect on what was preventing me from studying, leverage additional college resources, align to my learning styles, etc. But until I accepted the above as an honest objective truth, and a path to change, I wasn't able to be successful.

As someone who had the same: it's not useful advice. At all. In the slightest.