A new study focused on neurobehavioral effects and inflammatory response to exposure to microplastics, as well as the accumulation of microplastics in tissues, including the brain. The research team has found that the infiltration of microplastics was as widespread in the body as it is in the environment, leading to behavioral changes, especially in older test subjects.
If you know that your thinking has been warped, it would lend a degree of humility. Every time somebody was about to get into an argument on the internet, every time they were about to say something snarky, they could pause and think, “wait, maybe I’m just fucked up from all the microplastic”.
In this case the microplastic might be a good thing. A force for sanity even.