Are You Eating a Credit Card Every Week?
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in microplastics and recycling threads as a debunking of a viral statistic.
What it is
A vlogbrothers video tracing how the claim that people eat a credit card of plastic every week spread. It walks through the funded talking point, the misleading amplification, and the peer review that missed it.
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What Hacker News said
Critical Zacru · 2022-07 · on “Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects”
>We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week No, we don't. Here is a 4 minute video explaining how this bit of misinformation came to be spread across the internet. [this video]
Critical hackeman300 · 2023-10 · on “Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again”
Good article, but unfortunately it propagates the oft quoted "you eat a credit card worth of plastic each week" myth. Good video here explaining why it likely isn't true [this video]