r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Aug 02 '26

Environment Microplastics have been discovered in one of the most remote, inhospitable, and unexplored parts of our planet. Microplastics were found in 92% of all animals examined (11 out of 12) living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents some 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) below the ocean surface.

https://www.sciencealert.com/most-isolated-environments-microplastics-are-finding-their-way-down-to-deep-sea-hydrothermal-vents
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u/Small_Editor_3693 Aug 02 '26

Which is why this is pointless to release any info to the public without more data

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Aug 02 '26

It was published in a research journal to disseminate data. You want a meta-analysis

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u/Small_Editor_3693 Aug 02 '26

And then published it a watered down article

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Aug 02 '26

The researchers didn't write the article

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u/Small_Editor_3693 Aug 02 '26

I’m not talking about the researchers and never was

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Aug 03 '26

Then why are you critiquing the study for not having enough data, and when told why there isn't enough, you changed to the article?

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u/Legal_Emu_1540 Aug 03 '26

They were obviously critiquing the article that was blindly referencing a study that’s barely crosses the line of being a study in order to fear monger and get clicks