> What, exactly, would you have the rest of us do, other than panic?
Advocate for a reduction in plastic manufacturing, consumption and waste. It's pretty straightforward. We did it with lead. I acknowledge that there are certain things that we make with plastic that modern society requires to function. For the rest, if we cannot manage to figure out how to keep this stuff out of our bodies and brains, then we should be replacing it with alternatives.
The part about this study that I personally find terrifying is the trajectory. A 50% increase in 8 years is astonishing. Without more data points we don't know what curve we are on right now (logarithmic? exponential?) but is this an experiment we really want to be running on our brains? I can tell you that this experiment participant wants to opt out immediately.
We are talking about bioaccumulation of an environmental pollutant in critical human organs here. The precautionary principle would seem to apply.
> Advocate for a reduction in plastic manufacturing, consumption and waste. It's pretty straightforward.
Well, thanks for being explicit about it, I guess.
> We did it with lead.
Yeah, you skipped a step: we know that lead is toxic. It's not an unproven hypothesis.
> The part about this study that I personally find terrifying is the trajectory. A 50% increase in 8 years is astonishing.
I mean...maybe? The methodology is pretty uncalibrated, the demographics of the groups is completely unknown, and the ug/g estimates they're making don't pass a common sense test. Far more likely that you can't read anything into the time-series comparisons.
Advocate for a reduction in plastic manufacturing, consumption and waste. It's pretty straightforward. We did it with lead. I acknowledge that there are certain things that we make with plastic that modern society requires to function. For the rest, if we cannot manage to figure out how to keep this stuff out of our bodies and brains, then we should be replacing it with alternatives.
The part about this study that I personally find terrifying is the trajectory. A 50% increase in 8 years is astonishing. Without more data points we don't know what curve we are on right now (logarithmic? exponential?) but is this an experiment we really want to be running on our brains? I can tell you that this experiment participant wants to opt out immediately.
We are talking about bioaccumulation of an environmental pollutant in critical human organs here. The precautionary principle would seem to apply.