The Grad Student Who Broke Microplastics Research
mpweiher
12 points
3 comments
June 07, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
xhkkffbf
Science is hard. It was easier when Newton was dealing with bigger things like apples. Now just a tiny bit of contamination is enough to skew things.
ahartmetz
So human brains maybe aren't half a percent plastic by mass. Good article, sloppy (as in AI) writing :/
hyperhello
Broke? You mean massively improved.