finding enough plastic in human brains to make a spoon is certainly a shocking headline but I just don’t have it in me to be shocked anymore. not only can I see the evidence of spoon brain all around me I can literally feel it in myself
FYI this study has already been debunked by the scientific community! The methodology used is known to be bogus and misinterprets normal fatty tissue as high in microplastics — the brain is around 60% fat — because the authors are not experienced in the field. I do not believe there is an official retraction or update yet but here is some informal correction from actual micro/nanoplastics researchers. Yes, microplastics are everywhere, but it makes zero biophysiological sense for it to be amassing in your brain the way that paper suggests, particularly when that is not happening to the major filtering organs like liver, kidneys and the lymph system.
