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vablingstoday at 7:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

This whole issue around microplastics has just become another grift for the health and wellness industry. The supplements industry is worth over $150B dollars.

The main contributor to microplastic ingestion is in the water you drink, this water is contaminated with either parts of your car tire or the synthetic clothes you wear


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amanaplanacanaltoday at 9:06 PM

Under sink reverse osmosis filter for the win.

estearumtoday at 7:43 PM

What does the second line have to do with the first?

Anyone I know who is concerned about microplastics is worried about food packaging, water contamination, and clothing.

Yokolostoday at 9:08 PM

Are you suggesting that all the scientists studying microplastics and papers about microplastics are just grifting for the health and wellness industry?

Also, are you suggesting that a pharma company like Philip Morris, with a yearly revenue of $40 billion, part of the TRILLION dollar pharma industry, is somehow less influential than the health and wellness industry?

There's a grift alright, and it's not some former FDA scientist selling it.