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Just having the scientific method doesn't mean we know what's true. We just know what's easy to observe. The vast majority of what there is to know about human
by zug_zug 2y ago
Just having the scientific method doesn't mean we know what's true. We just know what's easy to observe. The vast majority of what there is to know about human health hardly have a clue (e.g. psychology).
By the same token we also don't really know what the long-term effects of having plastic in your testicles are over your lifespan, because we don't have an easy way to get this data on a million people and look for correlations. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
- gruez 2y ago>Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Where did I claim otherwise? If you read my comments more carefully you'd see I never made such claim. For instance in my original comment said "the science on microplastics seem... far from conclusive". That's not the same as claiming there's evidence that there's no negative effects from microplastics. Moreover, that comment is in reply to a comment which says that there is evidence that microplastics was causing "various problems" and was "probably affecting everyone".