Have we been lied to about microplastics?

When the headlines are scarier than the science

I fell for it again.

For some time now, I have felt a mounting dread about microplastics, faced with a barrage of stories warning of infertility, disease, and oceans choked with plastic - to give just a few examples - and making the problem seem ubiquitous and inescapable.

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have either been created intentionall…