Oops! We accidentally made "Morgellons" a "real thing"! Sorry!

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Lawrence Gilchrist: Mar 31, 2010

Remember your mentally crumbling neighbor or relative or woman shouting in the street in the 90s and 00s about "Morgellons"? It might not have been real then, but we did it! We made it real, minus the imaginary skin fibers and plus real gut fibers! Turns out turning bottles into microscopic fibers was a shortsighted idea!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/microfibers-plastic-pollution-oceans-patagonia-synthetic-clothes-microbeads posted:

The first time professor Sherri Mason cut open a Great Lakes fish, she was alarmed at what she found. Synthetic fibers were everywhere. Under a microscope, they seemed to be �weaving themselves into the gastrointestinal tract�. Though she had been studying aquatic pollution around the Great Lakes for several years, Mason, who works for the State University of New York Fredonia, had never seen anything like it.

...researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara found that, on average, synthetic fleece jackets release 1.7 grams of microfibers each wash. It also found that older jackets shed almost twice as many fibers as new jackets. The study was funded by outdoor clothing manufacturer Patagonia, a certified B Corp that also offers grants for environmental work.

Gregg Treinish, founder and executive director of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, which oversees Barrows�s microfibers work, said studies have led him to stop eating anything from the water.

�I don�t want to have eaten fish for 50 years and then say, �Oh, whoops�,� Treinish said.

�It absolutely has the potential to move up the food chain,� said Chelsea Rochman, a postdoctoral fellow in conservation biology at the University of California at Davis and the University of Toronto. She cautioned, however, against a rush to avoid fish: �I think no one�s really asked questions directly about that yet.�

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es201811s
https://brenmicroplastics.weebly.com/project-findings.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14340
https://www.adventurescientists.org/microplastics.html

Lawrence Gilchrist fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 21, 2017

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Tricky D: Apr 1, 2005; I love um!

Typically, the GI tract is removed from fish before consumption.

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Lena Dunham: Sep 19, 2017

So what, that's just extra roughage to keep us regular

# ? Sep 21, 2017 01:27

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

Tricky D posted:

Typically, the GI tract is removed from fish before consumption.

first post thread killa

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Bob James: Nov 15, 2005; by Lowtax; Ultra Carp

I'll be safe I only eat cheesy potatoes.

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Marxalot: Dec 24, 2008; Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch

Bob James posted:

I'll be safe I only eat cheesy potatoes.

boxed or from scratch

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Lawrence Gilchrist: Mar 31, 2010

Tricky D posted:

Typically, the GI tract is removed from fish before consumption.

could you not read five lines down or do you have fibers in your eyes

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somethingawful bf: Jun 17, 2005

Tricky D posted:

Typically, the GI tract is removed from fish before consumption.

Eat poo poo!

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Tricky D: Apr 1, 2005; I love um!

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

could you not read five lines down or do you have fibers in your eyes

I don't know how to read. What's this thread about? What did you say?

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mystery fluid: Feb 12, 2017; by Nyc_Tattoo

Tricky D posted:

Typically, the GI tract is removed from fish before consumption.

Look at this snooty gently caress, too good to eat fish asholles.

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PCOS Bill: May 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Poetic Justice posted:

Eat poo poo!

Typically, the GI tract is removed from fish before consumption.

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Lawrence Gilchrist: Mar 31, 2010

How do I go about asking a mod to change the title to make clear it's the fish that have the tum tum fibers instead of posting it right below the top of the OP

Lawrence Gilchrist fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Sep 21, 2017

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mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

just lol if you don't have an exit strategy for when all these problems come home to roost

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Guy Goodbody: Aug 31, 2016; by Nyc_Tattoo

So this has literally nothing to do with Morgellons except the word "fibers"

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berth ell pup: Mar 20, 2017; I am a business magnet.

yeah SUNY Fredonia is certainly one of the premier researLOL nope.

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OXBALLS DOT COM: Sep 11, 2005; by FactsAreUseless; Young Orc

Guy Goodbody posted:

So this has literally nothing to do with Morgellons except the word "fibers"

that and also massive crippling stupidity

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naem: May 29, 2011

*looks up from big tub of fish guts I've been shoveling handfuls of into mouth*

*confused UUUHNH? noise*

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OXBALLS DOT COM: Sep 11, 2005; by FactsAreUseless; Young Orc

I also never eat any kind of berry because think about it... all those tiny seeds. Who knows where they could be hiding? They could be driving themselves into the walls of your intestine as we speak, slowly making you sicker and sicker until finally you start bleeding from every inch of skin as thousands of tiny seeds force themselves out through your pores and you die in horrible agony

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DogonCrook: Apr 24, 2016; I think my 20 years as hurricane chaser might be a little relevant ive been through more hurricanws than moat shiitty newscasters

Fish's get stitches

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Lawrence Gilchrist: Mar 31, 2010

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

I also never eat any kind of berry because think about it... all those tiny seeds. Who knows where they could be hiding? They could be driving themselves into the walls of your intestine as we speak, slowly making you sicker and sicker until finally you start bleeding from every inch of skin as thousands of tiny seeds force themselves out through your pores and you die in horrible agony

im sorry your wife made you buy bpA free bottles. maybe take it up with her

# ? Sep 21, 2017 02:22

Waffle House: Oct 27, 2004; You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.

ah man. people have talked all about microbeads of plastic in the ocean

I didn't even think about the havoc that little fibrous shreds of plastic could wreak

that's a good point OP.

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DogonCrook: Apr 24, 2016; I think my 20 years as hurricane chaser might be a little relevant ive been through more hurricanws than moat shiitty newscasters

Maybe the plastic lining your gut will protect you from the mercury and you can eat more fish. The lord works in mysterious ways

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