Fighting Global Misinformation, Ditching Plastic Bottles, and Hunting with an Octopus

Science Quickly

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From the United Nations General Assembly, host Rachel Feltman interviews Melissa Fleming, the U.N.’s undersecretary-general for global communications, on how misinformation and distrust in science are impacting global well-being. Plus, we note caveats to a major social media study and explain how food packaging can be harmful to the environment and human health. Recommended reading: Why It’s So Hard to Recycle Plastic https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-its-so-hard-to-recycle-plastic/ How Deadly Is Mpox, What Vaccines Are Effective, and Other Questions Answered https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-deadly-is-mpox-what-vaccines-are-effective-and-other-questions-answered/ 61 Unexpected ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Packaging https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/61-unexpected-pfas-forever-chemicals-found-in-food-packaging/ E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Melissa Fleming, undersecretary-general for global communications at the United Nations. Our show is edited by Anaissa Ruiz Tejada with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.6	wherever you are right now. For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. You're
0:47.7	listening to our weekly science news roundup. But before we get into some of the science stories
0:54.0	you might have missed last week,
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1:02.2	The Scientific American Multimedia Team spent part of last week at the General Assembly of the
1:06.9	United Nations. We were hanging out to hear updates on the UN 17 Sustainable Development
1:11.5	Goals. And I got to chat with UN Undersecretary General for Global Communications, Melissa
1:16.2	Fleming, who shared her thoughts on how misinformation and distrust in science are impacting
1:21.1	global well-being, plus what we can do about it. Here's our conversation. Melissa, thanks so much
1:26.4	for taking the time to chat.
1:33.1	It's great to be with you. What's your sense of how public trust of science has changed in recent years? Well, I think with the rise of social media and the potential for anyone to claim
1:38.5	to know science or to communicate science, it's really in trouble because science can be uncomfortable,
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