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There are a lot of scary science stories that go around the Internet. It’s easy for a single paper to get spun up into a media frenzy, and harder for the level-headed truth to prevail. From dangerous chemicals in your spatulas to the dangers of intermittent fasting, here are a few of the biggest, scariest stories that went around lately, and why you don’t need to worry about them.
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Yes! Thank you for sharing this critique of the "microplastics in your brain" paper! As a scientist who has been involved in microplastics work for many years, I had several concerns with the methodology of the initial paper (especially the lack of information regarding standard control procedures for microplastics research) and was pleased to see the response paper. Important note–I tried sharing this response with a colleague a year or so ago and was unable to locate it using Google. The algorithm would only return the original research and popular science articles. I had to go into the original emailed newsletter containing the link to the response article to eventually find it. Always remember that these algorithms only return the most popular information on the internet NOT the full story!
Valve are anouncing something big next week though. We just don't know if that's the new VR, HL3 or the Steamdeck 2.
What if I want to become plastic? What if I want to become a human circuit board? What if I want to beep and boop?
Yeah the sea levels have pretty much stayed the same through the industrial revolution. Bill Gates even admitted the majority of what we've been told about climate change is alarmist at best
I remember something talking about microplastics in your brain linking to Altzeheimers and or Dementia but i can't find anything about it atm anyone have any ideas?😅
All I want is to be alive for JoJo part 7 and Half-Life 3
god I love these debunking
I consider myself very skeptical to the media and I believed all of these headlines before this video 💀
Ty :3
Hank, we all know mom's/gramma's secret ingredient ain't love, it's butter. LOTS OF BUTTER….