David Cooper

Whenever I hear people talking about microplastics, I remember that study that said those black plastics were like way, way, way, way worse.

And then the researchers came forward and said, oh, we forgot to carry the zero.

The black plastic that takeout restaurants gives you might be bad, but it's not as bad as that one paper said.

I'm not discounting the worry of microplastics and the way that they can affect our hormones and our bodies and things like that.

But I also know that there's a lot of pseudoscience being peddled around microplastics and their effects.

Plastic is bad.

There is a huge patch in the ocean of plastic that we got to worry about.

But this report, it's interesting and I want to cover it, but I do worry it'll make kind of conspiracy theories get even worse.

Don't worry.

Be scared.

Don't listen to what we're saying now and not be scared.

But it is interesting.

And it's also one of the great things about science.

It's like, OK, we've been making some mistakes or we've got a better way to measure things.

We'll be upfront about it.

Here's the correction that we have.

But like, you know, science moves forward and it doesn't mean you shouldn't trust the experts.

I think there's an important lesson there.

And that's exactly what we can infer from this.

Like in future, we'll get results that are even better than we had before.