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Re:Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human... by woleium on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:07AM (#42495400)
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 (#42496177)
>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 (#42498737)
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 (#42499893)
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 (#42506640)
context is audience dependent.