I've been bald for nigh on 30 years, so this is accurate.

He didn't lose his hair - it fled in protest.

This was developed at the University of Nottingham, a public research university.

From the article:

The device was developed by the university and its spin-out company Neurotherapuetics Ltd, which secured £1m in additional funding to commercialise the device.

Isn't it always us tax payers footing the bill for development, then again to buy it? Ridiculous. If a university develops technology with government funding, its findings ought to be available to the public and its products sold at cost.

He looks younger there than in the post pic.

Obvious troll is obvious.

There's nothing quite like when someone reads a study and doesn't understand it, yet is such a smug, condescending arsehole whilst being completely wrong.

Edit: JFC, you didn't even get past the abstract.

I purchased silk floss online. It works quite well.

I have some bad news about those fibre-boosted cereals...

Just kidding, no PFAS there.

This person has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

I linked the actual study above, but here's an article from the American Chemical Society explaining a ULCA study linking chewing gum to microplastic exposure.

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/march/chewing-gum-can-shed-microplastics-into-saliva-pilot-study-finds.html

The research completely disagrees:

Ingestion of microplastics during chewing gum consumption

This thread sure turned into a dumpster fire.