Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plastic'

Post by stevenwoo » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 1:50 AM UTC

gpmcadam wrote: post #349

stevenwoo wrote: post #262

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There was an article on the front page recently where they found plastic particles in the cells of creatures in the Marianas Trench. It's plastic all the way down.

How concentrated? Do you have a link to that article?

Sorry I didn't see this when you posted but here are stories I found on the topic, the news doesn't cover concentration but does mention they found plastic in a higher percentage of samples versus earlier years surveys did not find nearly that much: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/deep-... source article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.1806... I distinctly remember reading the researchers made sure their probes and sensors were plastic free somehow before they sampled the digestive systems.

Post by ecmascript » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 11:28 AM UTC

ookdatnog wrote: post #86

ecmascript wrote: post #72

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> We don't need to eat meat or fish at all to be healthy I think you will have to back that statement up if you want to be taken seriously. I for one am certainly not going to stop eating fish and meat, I have been a vegetarian for over a year and I did not fancy it.

> I think you will have to back that statement up if you want to be taken seriously. This is such a mainstream statement that it seems to me entirely reasonable to omit a source. You can find dozens of them by looking up "vegetarianism" on wikipedia and navigating to the "health effects" section.

So popular mainstream statements doesn't need to be backed by sources? This seems kind of strange and anti-scientific to me.

It also makes me believe less in the statements, since there is not apparently any sources that can be used to back the statements up.

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