David Cooper

Microplastics.

It seems every week there's a scientific paper saying they're everywhere.

And I'm not trying to discount that.

But there's new results saying that how we measure them might have been a little bit off.

Some of these results might have been contaminated.

I'm here with Jesse Rogerson to discuss that.

Jesse, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

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, you know, 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.