CNN's Warning on Microplastics. Did They Read the Study?

A new Nature Medicine study made headlines with its claim that brain microplastics jumped 50% from 2016 to 2024. But the data are skewed — 2024 included Alzheimer’s brains, which weren’t in 2016, and they’re loaded with plastic. The real story isn’t the timeline — it’s the strong link between plastic and Alzheimer’s.