Nut Nut's Attempt At A Book About Politics & Society
Dear Forum Members,
Over in the poker threads, they have members who blog about their poker experience. I've been wanting
That is just clearly false. Please think about it for five seconds.
All water is dirty today. It is all loaded with plastic.
There are actually lots of ways to remove microplastics from water. Personally, I just boil my water.
How much plastic is in our bodies ?
“Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising” was the shocking headline reporting a widely covered study in February. The analysis, published in a top-tier journal and covered by the Guardian, said there was a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried out between 1997 and 2024.
However, by November, the study had been challenged by a group of scientists with the publication of a “Matters arising” letter in the journal. In the formal, diplomatic language of scientific publishing, the scientists said: “The study as reported appears to face methodological challenges, such as limited contamination controls and lack of validation steps, which may affect the reliability of the reported concentrations.”
Tiny pellets of plastic found on a beach
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest
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One of the team behind the letter was blunt. “The brain microplastic paper is a joke,” said Dr Dušan Materić, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. “Fat is known to make false-positives for polyethylene. The brain has [approximately] 60% fat.” Materić and his colleagues suggested rising obesity levels could be an alternative explanation for the trend reported in the study.
You are posting a rebuttal to a study that I didn't cite.
The study that you cite is only a small contributor to the data in the link I provided.
It references plastic in the blood and lungs as well. A rebuttal to the methodology of counting plastic in the brain isn't relevant to that, is it?
