> 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.
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.
Still not terrified.