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please indulge me in my making a completely unfounded statement (with which Occam's Razor comes to mind notwithstanding): it has to be related to plastic.
by nickburns 3y ago
please indulge me in my making a completely unfounded statement (with which Occam's Razor comes to mind notwithstanding): it has to be related to plastic.
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- yellow_lead 3y agoThe article actually doesn't mention plastic, but NSAIDs, proton pumps, antibiotics, and psychiatric medications.
- nickburns 3y agoyeah, something about all those doesn't feel as ubiquitous.
- justsocrateasin 3y agoThis is incorrect. The article explicitly mentions PFAS as a potential cause. > So-called forever chemicals like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, have been linked to other cancers and could also be driving some of the increase in early-onset colorectal cancer.
- nickburns 3y agothat, on the other hand, does feel as ubiquitous as plastics.
- lr4444lr 3y agoYou ruined a witty reference to The Graduate.
- nickburns 3y agoi'm not familiar.
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- maxerickson 3y agoIt's at least as well trod as it is witty. A brief scene from the 1967 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtLdE5Zq-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtLdE5Zq-8
- ojbyrne 3y agohttps://youtu.be/PSxihhBzCjk?si=wnhUm2J2BVe_pzub https://youtu.be/PSxihhBzCjk?si=wnhUm2J2BVe_pzub
- marginalia_nu 3y agoWe've had plastics for 70 years though...?
- nickburns 3y agochecks out.
- apothegm 3y agoAnd we now use them a heck of a lot more and for more things than we did even 35 years ago.
- pie420 3y ago60 years ago plastic was a rarity, now micropastics are embedded in every piece of clothing, food, and drink you consume
- bjelkeman-again 3y ago> Plastic production has more than doubled in the last two decades https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
- stouset 3y agoExponential growth is a bitch.
- jijijijij 3y agoWhile this is true, size matters and a lot of that plastic is only now entering our food chain due to degradation. Also plastic usage has massively increased compared to the 50s and 60s. Especially things like plastic fiber fast-fashion clothing shedding microplastic particles during wear and washing. Then there is synthetic polymers as cosmetic and personal care ingredients. Plastic bottle and pipe usage increased too, I think.
- honksillet 3y agoMore libertine sexual habits. They are already causing an increase in pharyngeal cancer.
- jijijijij 3y agoThe increase in pharyngeal cancers may come from oral HPV infections specifically, not "libertine sexual habits" per se. It's only gonna be a few more years to find out, if HPV is related to the increase in colon cancers in young people, since the broad vaccination of teenagers is going for some time by now. I think, it's also worth considering the fallout of the AIDS scare messing with statistics here. PrEP, education on and treatment options for HIV may have caused people (including heterosexual) to use less protection in recent years, unfortunately, since other STIs are less scary and stigmatized. I doubt rates of oral and anal sex have increased that much.