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   Dirty Hippie (adirtyhippie@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 15:26:58 JST Dirty Hippie

   Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:06:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

     @Mehrad @adirtyhippie Missing the forest for the trees?

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     Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:06:17 JST Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

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     @aral
     Indeed it is a good thing to reduce such microplastics, but did you even consider clicking on the links in this "The Drive" website? Especially the link in "new research shared by Yale Environment 360 indicates that ..."???? There is no "new study"!! That yale is just a blog post, not a research.

     As much as like to reduce such pollution, I hate it when fake news and misinformation is passed around in the name of science!

     Please next time validate before sharing.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:19:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

     @Mehrad @adirtyhippie Ok, let’s be pedantic: the linked to post itself links to “new research”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37088393/

     What – apart from whether or not the research linked to is deserving of the “new” qualifier – is nonfactual in the article?

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     Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:19:12 JST Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral
     Nope, defending science from nonsense.

     Science means peer reviewed research mostly with statistics. If we want to believe every blog post, then we should confidently accept that earth is flat, vaccines cause autism, 2pac is alive, and etc.

     Let's be honest and vigilant about what we share.

     @adirtyhippie

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:43:59 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

     @Mehrad @adirtyhippie Ok, man, clearly we have a different idea of “honest” means and I don’t appreciate the insinuation that sharing this article is dishonest or an attempt to spread “fake news”. Not going to bike-shed with you here on minutiae as the planet burns.

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     Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:44:00 JST Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

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     @aral @adirtyhippie

     Any type of pollution is bad obviously, but why abusing the name science for some nonsense clickbait? Why not be honest? Why not respecting science?

     P.s: I could also say that that picture is also BS because it is showing ice particles and not microplastics, but by agenda is not smash the post, but rather asking to be honest and vigilant.

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     Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:44:01 JST Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

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     @aral @adirtyhippie

     Yes, it is nonfactual because in both The Drive and the Yale blog post they are referring to a single study (N=1) from 3 years back, but The Drive is portraying these as in 2020 there was one research and now there is a new one. This is non-factual.

     if you want to share, be realistic and post the pubmed/journal link(s). No clickbaity nonsense that is getting a free ride in the name of science!

     🧵 👇🏼

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     Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:44:01 JST Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

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     @aral @adirtyhippie
     These said, your pubmed link has nothing to do with that The Drive thing:
     1. it is about metal particles, not plastic (zero mention of plastic in the full text)
     2. it is about breaks, and not tiers (e.g regenerative EV break would mitigate that)
     3. it is about road-side pollution and not oceans

     So, yeah, let's be honest and vigilat about what we share and what we call science.