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“No tangible issues to health” … not too long ago members of the tobacco industry were claiming about the same thing. The White House, taking microplastics ser
by odyssey7 2y ago
“No tangible issues to health” … not too long ago members of the tobacco industry were claiming about the same thing.
The White House, taking microplastics seriously: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Mobilizing-Federal-Action-on-Plastic-Pollution-Progress-Principles-and-Priorities-July-2024.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Mobili...
- notTooFarGone 2y agoDo they do that because it's popular or because there is scientific consensus?
- odyssey7 2y agoWe live in a democracy, so ideally both. The White House pdf suggests a scientific consensus of some form, stating: “Researchers are sounding alarm bells over the growing presence of microplastics in the human body, and are concerned that the ingestion of microplastics and exposure to plastic-related pollution are posing a growing risk to public health.”
- rglynn 2y agoHopefully because it has predictive power. Scientific consensus is a proxy for that, but lets not mistake the proxy for the actual thing.