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The Skeptics Guide #916 - Jan 28 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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30,000 Bacterial Plastic Eating Genes

There are 30,000 bacterial plastic eating genes. There's some opportunities here is the bottom line but none of them exist yet. But there's interesting proofs of concept and they mean there's a lot of potential there. You know we should just crisper the hell out of some super bunch. Darn. So this is more off theoretical Steve. They don't have a bacteria. No they do. The oceans are full of plastic. That's bad. But it's like yeah but that's already happening. Yeah I just call that an abuse of the precautionary principle. It's so frustrating.

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