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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What's the impact exactly?

They say microplastics are in every organism, everywhere. Seems like a large enough sample size that we should have an idea of what kind of damage they do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Sample size isn't the problem. The problem is we don't have a control group to compare against. Ideally, you'd compare people with micro plastics to people without them, but those people don't really exist anymore.

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