Microplastics in the human brain
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Microplastics in the human brain
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#3> not a spoonful, but the same weight as a plastic spoon
oh
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#4> not a spoonful, but the same weight as a plastic spoon oh
That's not great
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#5> not a spoonful, but the same weight as a plastic spoon oh
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#6> not a spoonful, but the same weight as a plastic spoon oh
That's both a misleading headline and a really odd unit of measurement. So odd that I wouldn't be surprised if the US adopted it as the official unit of measurement of microplastics (I kid, as an American).
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#7As I understand it, they took a small sample of brain tissue, extracted the plastic, and then extrapolated that (based on the tissue sample size) over the whole of the brain.
This assumes the presence of plastic is evenly distributed throughout the brain, which isn't necessarily the case.
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#8just a spoon full of plastic helps the medicine go down the medicine go down the......
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#9I thought it was our gonads that had the most?
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#10I like the analogy where other articles have said we have microplastics in our brain about the size of a credit card (which generally weigh between 4g and 10g) better.
Saying a “spoon’s worth” seems to be downplaying the unmitigated potential risk. We have no idea what will happen as we (and all the other creatures on earth) keep storing more and more microplastics in our organs.
Nobody is going to stop driving. Car tires are the largest source of microplastics.
(actually I don’t drive though so who am I to judge)