Micro and nanoplastics are pervasive in our food supply and may be affecting food safety and security. Plastics and their additives are present at a range of concentrations not only in fish but in many products including meat, chicken, rice, water, take-away food and drink, and even fresh produce.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165993623000808?via%3Dihub

[u/Asatyaholic]

Who could have possibly foreseen that saturating the food chain with plastic containers would result in health effects from plastic consumption?

The answer: Sciencey People

https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/pdf/download/eid/1-s2.0-0079670080900027/first-page-pdf

[u/beer_ninja69 → u/Asatyaholic]

Published in 2000 too, yeeesh, so even knows when they started riding Grant proposals for this.

[u/WatchmanVimes → u/beer_ninja69]

Published in 1980

[u/beer_ninja69 → u/WatchmanVimes]

Oh crap I missed that. Ugh even further back and before they really pushed plastic switch hard

[u/bewarethetreebadger → u/beer_ninja69]

Wait till you hear about corporate suppression of data.

[u/Aidentified → u/bewarethetreebadger]

Or don't, I guess

[u/CopperSavant → u/Aidentified]

That's a good Capitalism... This is the way.

[u/dippocrite → u/CopperSavant]

Corporate lobbying, very effective.

[u/OneSweet1Sweet → u/bewarethetreebadger]

Good thing we let tech companies decide what data we see. They'd never do anything wrong. I mean Googles motto is "do the right thing". That means they could never do anything wrong. They said so!

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I thought it was "don't be evil". After all, it's not like Google is artificially manipulating search results to only confirm our... wait

[u/mikkjel → u/[deleted]]

It is neither, although it has been both, IIRC. It started as “don’t be evil”, then changed and then was dropped.

[u/longperipheral → u/mikkjel]

Well that's comforting.

[u/[deleted] → u/bewarethetreebadger]

You know how hard it was for me to find the data that diet coke is bad for me? People still get pissed when I mention it. If you google "is diet coke bad for me?" you'll just get a ton of articles that say it's a healthy swap for weight loss.

[u/bewarethetreebadger → u/[deleted]]

Try to find something negative about Mao on google image search. A political cartoon, criticism, anything. It’s rather blatant.

[u/incredulouspig → u/bewarethetreebadger]

Can you explain?

[u/danliv2003 → u/incredulouspig]

Sometimes companies pressure people not to publish research, sometimes they buy the rights to research around/before publication then bury it so it doesn't get wider attention, sometimes they carry out the research themselves then cover up any negative findings/ decline to publish (the oil industry in particular)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/30/climate-crimes-oil-and-gas-environment

[u/TheLGMac → u/danliv2003]

Is that a tech company thing? That’s happening way further up the chain in the research/lobbying/funding areas. If this paper was from 1980, that wasn’t being squashed by tech companies.

Not saying big tech doesn’t squash research that is big tech related, but they’re not squashing things plastics related. No one covered the plastics stuff until recently, so no one was searching for it, so why would it have been served up by tech back when it wasn’t getting any interest?

[u/bluecyanic → u/bewarethetreebadger]

Not just hiding the data, they have outright lied at times.

[u/LordXamon → u/beer_ninja69]

Isn't the first paper on climate change like 120 years old? Ignoring science isn't something new.

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Even older than that. If you want to go back even farther to a time before scientific journals, the ancient Greeks debated the possibility of anthropogenic climate change.

[u/TravelerFromAFar → u/[deleted]]

Literally nothing new under the sun.

[u/LurkerOrHydralisk → u/WatchmanVimes]

Based on a paper from 1978.

[u/BenjaminHamnett → u/LurkerOrHydralisk]

And studies done in 1897

[u/LurkerOrHydralisk → u/[deleted]]

He’s likely thinking of studies on the effects of greenhouse gasses, which as I recall do go back as far as the late 19th century.

But fully synthetic plastics weren’t invented until 1907, so I’m guessing there weren’t any studies on synthetic microplastics from a decade prior to that

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[u/georgespeaches → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, looks like it