Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human...
by woleium on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:07AM
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how do we find the 100x as bad thing if we do not do research like this. The authors did not write this to provide you with a guide for life, they are instead trying to increase our collective knowledge. I wonder sometimes if folks understand how science works.
Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human...
by Suppafly on Monday December 23, 2024 @12:50PM
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>they are instead trying to increase our collective knowledge
I'm not sure that's even clear since they seem to be conflating cellulose with microplastics.
Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human...
by woleium on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:36PM
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i believe the bags are made from a mix of cellulose and plastic
Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human...
by brookst on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:26AM
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That seems like something research could look at.
The problem is context. Lack of it. Good research contextualizes its findings.
Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human...
by woleium on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:29PM
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context is audience dependent.
That’s what a lack of context does. No harm in just avoiding anything any study has found to be potentially harmful (especially tea bags, which are a crime against good tea and easily replaced). But… it’s impossible to know if this is the equivalent of stopping smoking, or of brushing teeth three times a day instead of two.