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I think it's healthy to be skeptical, but also it's good to trust your gut and use some common sense. Plastic is made from refined natural gas and crude oil. W
by grecy 3y ago
I think it's healthy to be skeptical, but also it's good to trust your gut and use some common sense.
Plastic is made from refined natural gas and crude oil. We know for a fact those things are carcinogenic. There is no universe where putting them inside your body is not bad, and we should be doing everything we can to reduce it.
> a naturalistic experiment with lots of people exposed to large doses of microplastics
Are you volunteering to be in that group? Why not?
- userbinator 3y agoPlastic is made from refined natural gas and crude oil. We know for a fact those things are carcinogenic. There is no universe where putting them inside your body is not bad, and we should be doing everything we can to reduce it. This is the type of ignorant generalisation that causes the widespread paranoia we're discussing here. Crude oil consists of a mixture of literally hundreds or more different compounds. Benzene is carcinogenic, and so are a few other aromatics. Methane isn't, and neither are the other pure alkanes. The keyword is "refined". Highly refined mineral oil isn't carcinogenic. Neither is petroleum jelly.
- grecy 3y agoAll the same, do you want to put large quantities of them inside your body for a study? Of course you don’t