• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    estimates that he can isolate about 10 grams of plastics from a donated human brain; that’s about the weight of an unused crayon.

  • adam_y@lemmy.world
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    But there is no evidence yet that microplastics directly cause poor health in humans — only data that show a link.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.world
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      Blood donation is the one thing shown to help reduce plastics in your body and it has the side effect of helping others

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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        Is it because they run your blood through a filter while they’re pulling it? Or is it just that the blood we make to replace it is clean?

        I’m laughing pretty hard that blood letting is now an actually useful treatment

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    Yes. This will be the next science denial ‘debate’ after climate change (if we live that long)

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    We do have young and healthy people getting sick with no obvious explanation.