Hold onto your plastic straws, folks—turns out that terrifying headline about your brain being 1% Tupperware might be total garbage (or at least fatty garbage). A wave of studies screaming “microplastics in your blood, organs, and noggin!” is getting roasted by scientists who say the fancy lab tests are basically confusing your love handles with polyethylene. One brain paper? Called a straight-up “joke” because fat tissue throws the same chemical tantrum as plastic when you heat it up. So maybe we’re not all walking PET bottles after all—just victims of bad science and rising obesity stats playing dress-up as eco-horror.
Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error
