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I am sorry, but I am not able to connect with what you are saying. Many technologies have been studied properly and been found to be safe or unsafe. Smoking, n
by jtrn 3y ago
I am sorry, but I am not able to connect with what you are saying.
Many technologies have been studied properly and been found to be safe or unsafe. Smoking, non-ionizing radiation, airbags, alcohol consumption, exercise, beta-blockers, metformin, GLP-1, antipsychotics—all of these have been well studied and have been found to be clinically, not just statistically, relevant with regards to safety. Even vaccines are much better studied and understood with regard to risk compared to microplastics. So, I don't think I am just randomly picking on plastic research. I am holding it up as an example of research areas that are triggering skeptical red flags, as opposed to research that isn't stuck in the speculative phase.
I also wasn't commenting on the issue of overproduction of goods, which I have thought about, but that is not what I was focusing on here.
- Terr_ 3y agoTo me the key is whether someone can advance a plausible and falsifiable chain of cause. Otherwise it feels a bit like an argument from anxious cynicism: "There must be a major danger or tragedy with everything including X, if we don't see it, that just means it's been good at hiding."