Posted on 01/16/2026 7:38:18 AM PST by Twotone
Life in plastic might be fantastic after all — or at least not as dangerous as we’ve been led to believe.
Ubiquitous in the environment, microplastics can be found in the clothes we wear, the cleaning supplies we use, the food we eat, the water we drink and even the air we breathe.
For years, scientists have warned that these pesky particles may be quietly building up inside our bodies, posing a threat to human health. But a new report in the Guardian is shaking up that narrative.
Several experts told the outlet that some of the alarming claims about microplastics may be exaggerated — with one calling the skepticism a “bombshell.”
“This is really forcing us to re-evaluate everything we think we know about microplastics in the body. Which, it turns out, is really not very much,” Roger Kuhlman, a chemist formerly at the Dow Chemical Company, told the Guardian.
“Many researchers are making extraordinary claims, but not providing even ordinary evidence,” he added.
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I’m still using Tupperware that Mom bought 50 years ago. No issues.
But hey-they have learned they just need to get the lie out there, and...TAH DAH!
Another “crisis” is born, a fire-and-forget issue where the Leftist Activists just pick it up, run with it, and never look back, and refuse to update their Leftist mission and Leftist thought processes with facts or new information.
Which is exactly as the Leftist leadership wants it.
Anyone here remember Melmac?
Just another part of the environmental hoax. Too bad we are too ready to believe these things.
So Dustin Hoffman has nothing to worry about.
“One of the earliest findings suggesting that microplastics may have entered the human body dates back to 2018, when Austrian scientists analyzed stool samples from people in eight countries...”
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analyzing stool samples.....whatever they paid that person, it wasn’t enough.
I think Corelle came after Melmac...I liked it because it didn't take up a lot of room.
I am not surprised at this.
Great, true story my mom liked to tell about when Melmac came out. She was feeding me breakfast one morning when I picked up the bowl and fired it at the wall smashing it. Mom said that a Melmac salesman opened screen door at the same time and fired Melmac bowl into the kitchen and it hit the floor. Mom said it was an instant sale. I ate off that Melmac for many years while growing up.
I don’t believe that type of plastic was of concern.
So micro-plastics is another climate change science.
It would seem to me that finding microplastics in stool samples would indicate that the plastics passed through the body, not that they accumulated in the body.
there was an article out fairly recently that literally said that over a lifetime you accumulate enough plastic in your brain to make a plastic fork. When I heard that I thought it was ridiculous.
Ask yourself who would want to get rid of all the plastic bottles in the world.
Maybe this is true, but having the mouthpiece be a guy from Dow Chemical, which was heavily involved in creating these synthetic materials, invites skepticism.
Biologically, your gut is considered EXTERNAL to your body - the old tube within a tube model present in primitive animal gut structures on up the classification chains.
Besides, I have never seen a worthy scientific definition of what microplastics are, and how they cross the gut barriers.
Unless they were just studying their furniture.
See my post #18. You are correct.
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