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Do they do that because it's popular or because there is scientific consensus?
by notTooFarGone 2y ago
Do 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.