The hysterical report was a lie!-----The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint

For a brief and revealing moment, the public was told—without irony—that the human brain is now “full of plastic.” - Charles Rotter

The phrase was not metaphorical. 

• It was literal, repeated across major outlets with the confidence usually reserved for gravity or photosynthesis. 

Readers were assured that microplastics, and even nanoplastics, had accumulated in brain tissue at concentrations high enough to be weighed, compared, and graphed over time...

The study responsible for this frenzy appeared in a prestigious medical journal, which lent it instant authority.
The press release did the rest. 

• Few journalists paused to ask the most basic question in analytical science: how, exactly, was “plastic” identified inside one of the most lipid-rich organs in the human body? 
• Fewer still asked whether the methods used were capable of distinguishing polymer fragments from ordinary biological molecules that share similar chemical signatures when thermally decomposed. 

The story was too good to slow down for that.
And that is precisely where the embarrassment begins...