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minus-squarerickdg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·23 hours agoMe when I remember that science can’t study microplastics because there’s no control group to be found.
minus-squareselokichtli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·21 hours agoScience predates statistics. Scientists can and do study microplastics.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·20 hours agoThey mean we can’t get accurate numbers on the effects. Yes, you can try to figure out what the fuck someone dying of “wolf blood madness” means in a report from 1824, but what you don’t know is how many deaths were unreported in the first place.
Me when I remember that science can’t study microplastics because there’s no control group to be found.
Science predates statistics. Scientists can and do study microplastics.
They mean we can’t get accurate numbers on the effects. Yes, you can try to figure out what the fuck someone dying of “wolf blood madness” means in a report from 1824, but what you don’t know is how many deaths were unreported in the first place.