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> Researchers looking for things will certainly find them, not necessarily because they're true, but because the null hypothesis doesn't bring any fame or fortu

• userbinator 3y ago
  Both. Remember when microwave ovens were thought to cause cancer, and then cellphones a few decades later? You can find plenty of "research" to support those claims. Just like RF, humans have been exposed to microplastics for over a century now. The biggest difference is that sociopolitical ideology has become more pervasive and environmentalist virtue-signaling is now fashionable and brings in the fame and fortune.