Haha wut

Finally finished drawing her! Yayyy

my collection grows

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Identifying and understanding main contributions to issues in methodology should be celebrated and appreciated. Calling people stupid or dumb for not realizing it can be an issue is unproductive. Maybe it’s specific types or producers of nitrile gloves? There are different specs and formulations. What if one style is fine but another isn’t? There are hundreds of places to buy gloves. Maybe the lab switched from one source to another, which increased or decreased the contamination. Again, realizing the gloves can contribute to skewed data is a great thing! Now labs can look into correcting for that moving forward.