Comment by nobodyandproud

And with some actual numbers, when digging in further:

> They found that on average, the gloves imparted about 2,000 false positives per millimeter squared area.

> Clough prepared the substrates while wearing nitrile gloves, which is recommended by the guidance of literature in the microplastics field. But when she examined the substrates to estimate how many microplastics she captured, the results were many thousands of times greater than what she expected to find.

The reason this is important is that one flawed dataset reports a hopeless situation; the other at least provides a “if we stop now” message.