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There’s a review on this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/ > Endocrine toxicity ind
by dudisubekti 2y ago
There’s a review on this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/
> Endocrine toxicity induced by MPs is an emerging issue, despite the subject being rarely documented, there is growing evidence for ingested MPs bioaccumulation in mammalian tissues and organs with deleterious outcomes including endocrine abnormalities, reproductive toxicity, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and defective immunological responses in rodents, rats and mice.
And:
> However, there are still no conclusive research reports that have determined the direct consequences of MPs and NPs on the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal gland.
However, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” These microplastics are definitely on the more suspicious side, just like tobacco use was.
- hindsightbias 2y agoIn an alternate universe the onus of safety would reside with those introducing copious quantities of something into human environments. Unfortunately we do not live in that universe.
- dudisubekti 2y agoYeah, safety takes decades to study conclusively, it’s simply antithetical to fast-paced industrial world. Sometimes I read accounts on industrial revolution England and think “how the heck people survive THAT.” Several decades from now there will be people who think of us the same way haha.
- mr_toad 2y agoIf we took that approach with everything nobody would be using cellphones.
- guerrilla 2y agoNobody would be using cellphones now you mean. They would be evetually. The benefits of patience outweigh the costs.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoSounds good to me!
- hindsightbias 2y agoAnd between the 1.6M distracted driving crashes each year, social media and educational impacts it would have been the right thing to do. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-safety-council-estimates-that-at-least-16-million-crashes-are-caused-each-year-by-drivers-using-cell-phones-and-texting-81252807.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-safety-cou...