This is so depressing.
Plastic bottlenose dolphins.
New Gorillaz album
They’re finding plastics everywhere like a quack doctor finds Lyme disease.
This is the lead author of the study:
Miranda K. Dziobak
Roles: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Affiliations: Department of Health and Human Performance, School of Health Sciences, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America
That doesn’t sound like a quack to me.
You can feel free to check on the legitimacy of the multiple other authors in the peer-reviewed study too:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309377
Obviously, I provided no evidence of my contention. Nor did I intend to. But there is plenty of crap published in peer-reviewed journals, and quacks all graduated from medical school.
I made no good argument at all, so it takes nothing to counter it. But an argument from authority is still a bad counterargument.
It’s ok squiddy isn’t a mod in this channel
I’m not a mod in 99% of communities (not channels) on Lemmy. What’s your point?
I only disagree with him occasionally, and whether he is a mod or not has nothing to do with it.
I never suggested you made an argument, so….
and quacks all graduated from medical school.
Um what? Have I misunderstood what that term means for my entire life? I would say that the vast majority of “quacks” have no medical expertise whatsoever.
That is what I have always heard partially defines a quack as well.
You’re both right. A quack is a charlatan and pretender. I’ve seen it applied to legitimate MDs who have “jumped the shark” and started giving bogus medical advice, so I thought that’s what it meant.
There are in fact MDs who use bogus tests and find Lyme or babesiosis as the cause of unrelated woes in the majority of their patients. Those were who I was referencing.
you’re probably wearing a bunch of it
We have plastic in our brains and the bottom of the marianas trench, of course it’s in the dolphins.
At least we stopped putting them in our tuna…
Man, we are so fucked.
Plastic is going to be the next leaded gasoline
Like leaded gasoline made people criminals and murderers and domestic violence, and violent gangs and mayhem? Microplastics are having this effect on dolphins now?
The absolutely terrifying thing is that we have no real idea what the health effects will be. Hope it’s not cancer!
Oh it’s way worse than that. I would say it’s so bad that: “it’s as bad as plastic” is gonna be the comparison for everything that is horrible in the future.
When they leave they’re not even gonna thank us for the fish
Well sure, pre-packaging them makes it easier to get them into the tuna cans.
