Fearmongering over microplastics/polyester clothes

Hello, I see lots of warnings against wearing polyester synthetic clothes like shorts because microplastics “causing infertility” and other health problems. Some recent study about detecting them in men has the internet talking about it again but I’m not really buying it. I wear polyester shorts and pants so maybe I’m just biased and don’t want to believe it but it seems like it would only be a problem if one were to I don’t know, eat it or burn it?

While I am skeptical of such claims, unfortunately I don’t know enough of the evidence on this topic to comment confidently.

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