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Are You Eating a Credit Card Every Week?
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A vlogbrothers video tracing how the claim that people eat a credit card of plastic every week spread. It walks through the funded talking point, the misleading amplification, and the peer review that missed it.
Linked in microplastics and recycling threads as a debunking of a viral statistic.
3 Hacker News mentions · 2022–2023