Jesse Rogerson
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So that's happening.
The real question that's being covered in this paper is how much of it is in the environment before it makes it into us.
So it's in us.
It's measured.
So don't worry.
I think everybody should still be scared.
That's exactly why I wanted to talk about this story is this is this is an evolving field.
Microplastics is relatively new.
And all the people who are trying to get a hand, all the scientists and engineers who are trying to get a handle on what's actually happening in the environment, how that makes it into us.
What are the pathways it gets into us?
What are the pathways it gets into the environment?
And eventually, what's the physiological effects?
All of these are still actively being studied.
And what this group found is that when you're measuring, there was a group measuring how much microplastics is in the atmosphere, in the air.
So when you sample, when you're sampling the air, how do you do that?
How do you actually build an experiment where you can sample the air without contaminating your sample?
This is what I think people forget about science is how much effort goes into the experiment before you actually do the work.
So they had to take into account like, what jars are you using?
What are the jars made of?
That's a simple one.