Paid-only episode 26: Microplastics redux
Science Fictions · Stuart Ritchie and Tom Chivers
January 20, 202610m 47s
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It’s rare that we return to a topic, but it’s also nice to have been right. In 2024 we did an episode on microplastics, and cast a lot of doubt on some of the more outrageous claims about them filling up your brain, your arteries, and (for the fellas) your testicles. Since then a lot more flaws in the science have been found—and at least one of them is utterly devastaing.
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