People who had tiny plastic particles lodged in a key blood vessel were more likely to experience serious health problems or die during a three-year study
    • Nudding@lemmy.world
      102·
      9 months ago

      That’s not how this works lol. We exploit a resource until we either run out of it or find a more easily exploitable resource. This will continue until we kill enough of ourselves that we can’t maintain plastic production.

  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
    30·
    9 months ago

    Too bad the published paper isn’t open access, but anyway, I believe we are in the start of an inflection point in the studies about microplastics. For so long, we’ve been detecting these particles in all possible places, but couldn’t find links to the effects in health, what, along with the industry pressure, has led to the consideration that they were safe, unless proven the contrary. Now, we will probably see many more results like this one being published, finding links between microplastics and all kinds of health issues you can imagine. Let’s see how this information will impact the world.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
      24·
      9 months ago

      Too bad the published paper isn’t open access

      Embarrassing that some states still fund non-public research. For people who are unaware, scientific articles have a DOI. Enter this in scihub, and you will probably find a pirated version of the paper.

      • apis@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        If someone were prosecuted for pirating research papers which they, as someone who pays tax in a country which funded that research, have any likelihood of success in using that point as a defence? Or if they made the paper available to residents of that country?

        Am sure corporate interests & standard neoliberalism would move swiftly to stifle any such angle of attack, but still.

        Whatever about anywhere else, within the US, the foundational concept of no taxation without representation could apply here without much stretch.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    People like to show trend lines of various things and compare them to:

    • Heart Disease
    • Obesity
    • Autism
    • Depression
    • Stroke
    • ADHD
    • Cancer

    Etc.

    I wonder how many will turn out to be influenced by the physical impacts and chemical/hormonal impacts of petroleum products placed inside our bodies.

    Life in plastic, it’s fantastic.