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Microwave ovens have been everywhere for 70 years already. If gazillions femtoplastics killed toddlers left and right, that'd be kinda hard to miss hmmyes?
by dopa42365 3y ago
Microwave ovens have been everywhere for 70 years already.
If gazillions femtoplastics killed toddlers left and right, that'd be kinda hard to miss hmmyes?
- mschuster91 3y agoWe are seeing suspicious changes across populations though in that timeframe... earlier onset of puberty for example, lower fertility as a whole and higher rates of infertility due to poor sperm quality, obesity rates, cancer rates and others. Of course there is no single cause behind this, and many have been suggested - microplastics, hormonal agents in plastics, more food, higher amounts of processed food, overusage of medication. It may even be the cause that progress from other unrelated changes (like the lead bans) "mask" bad effects getting worse. The problem is, some of the effects take decades to show up in general population, and because microplastics are everywhere on the planet there isn't even a control group any more.