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‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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I don't get the downvotes. The article explains that many researchers pointed out methodological issues in the tests measuring microplastics and the implausibility of some results. An the criticism was made writing letters to the respective journals that published the results, i.e. at the highest level, even some authors admitted the possibility of mistakes in the results. Sounds good news to me and honestly having microplastics in the brain equivalent to a credit card was hard to believe.
This looks like one of the self deleting spam accounts, so people may be downvoting because of that
Where do you see downvotes? I only see the total votes. I just checked my settings and I have all the "show" options enabled. I only see downvotes on comments.
May be it's the app, I use Jerboa.