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Is there no existing population that has been minimally affected by these 2 factors ? A controlled study is impossible to do, but the correlations and trend li
by screye 3y ago
Is there no existing population that has been minimally affected by these 2 factors ?
A controlled study is impossible to do, but the correlations and trend lines should show up when comparing across different population wide exposures to PFAs and microplastics.
That's another reason I think it is important to keep granular data of localized IQ, fertility, and trends in reproductive choice. People are worried about what it will reveal. We should instead be worried about what we're missing.
- scythe 3y agoSure, there are plenty of such populations. The first one that comes to mind is the Kogi, who live in a sky island 4000 meters above northern Colombia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogi_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogi_people But none of those populations can actually be used for testing, because you would need to collect relevant data on them starting 50 years ago, and we don't have any time machines.