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Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nah, everybody dies of something. It's also never ACTUALLY "old age". It's either cancer, or a cascading failure of organs caused by a chronic disease, or both.
a lot more people are getting cancer at younger ages than before
and is it like how there were "suddenly" more left handed or non-straight people? Sounds more like everyone jumping on headlines.
Maybe pumping chemicals and plastic into the food and water supply is actually really good for us. I bet everyone didn't think about that.
You might be able to link the cited article to a decline in sperm count.
Might. Saying, "yep, definitely why cancer" is simply and only a jump to conclusions.
Citation pls?
Step 1: assessment of current situation as a bad thing
Step 2: lemmy user defends bad thing for reasons, as one does
Step 3: ablockalypse nao
I am not defending microplastics, but pointing out how there are baseless assumptions being made.