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Are microplastics really a problem?

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PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Our listener Louisa is very annoyed by her sister’s preoccupation with keeping her children away from microplastics. Louisa wonders: are people with microplastics anxiety kind of overdoing it?  Search Engine investigates.   Support Search Engine! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, search engine listeners. We are back with a new season, season three. We have new questions and new answers for you. Our team is recharged. We are so happy to be back in the studio. As always, if you would like to support our quixotic venture here, the best way to do it is to sign up for a premium membership at search engine. show. We call it incognito mode. And next week, we will have a special We call it Incognito mode.

0:21.8

And next week, we will have a special treat

0:23.7

for our incognito mode listeners.

0:26.4

Next Wednesday for our premium subscribers,

0:28.9

we're sharing my conversation this summer

0:30.6

with podcasting superstar and infamous diva

0:33.7

Jonathan Goldstein of heavyweight.

0:36.1

He dished on his rise to podcast celebrity, his many

0:39.3

famous feuds and squabbles, all the romances, and how he almost threw it all away. Just kidding.

0:44.6

We had a fun conversation about podcasting and celebrated the return of heavyweight. But if you

0:49.3

want to hear that conversation, you need to sign up for incognito mode, our premium feed at search engine.

0:54.4

Show before next Wednesday.

0:57.0

Okay, enough talking about podcasts, about podcasting.

1:00.6

Let's play our podcast after these ads. Sometimes I wonder if I'd lived in the past, would I have made the right decisions, even if almost everyone else was making the wrong ones?

1:37.9

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1:48.3

Like, it's the 1800s.

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1:51.7

And you're trying to decide what you can safely do to your own body.

1:56.0

And here and there, you can find these articles suggesting that a few things a lot of people routinely do are actually very dangerous.

2:04.6

Like, you can open up a newspaper and read an article claiming you ought to worry about a condition called bicycle face.

2:12.6

This is that condition where the physical strain of riding a bike changes the shape of your face permanently

2:18.8

into a kind of wretched grimace. Bike riding, you might read, can also damage women's

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