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Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (20 children)

I'd say at least it's not generational lead poisoning, but we'll probably end up with that too at this rate

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Approximately 40.5% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes.

this might be worse than generational lead poisoning

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

a lot more people are getting cancer at younger ages than before

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and is it like how there were "suddenly" more left handed or non-straight people? Sounds more like everyone jumping on headlines.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

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.