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Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds (phys.org)
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[–] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No offenses, but I'm gonna put a lot more weight behind a peer reviewed Nature paper, rather than some random podcaster.

The explained their methodology pretty well. They extrapolate the microplastics amount from a small bit of cortical tissue, and compared it to previous results. Yeah there might not be as much in other parts of the brain, but we don't have a reason to think it would be drastically different.