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2024-12-13 18:55:27 UTC

Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman on Nostr: Hey remember we were chucking out our black plastic cooking utensils because they're ...

Hey remember we were chucking out our black plastic cooking utensils because they're contaminated? Turns out there was a simple but big maths error in that research so the estimated dose of bad shit from using them was exaggerated ten-fold.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/13/how-a-simple-math-error-sparked-a-panic-about-black-plastic-kitchen-utensils/