From The Heart #28: Why We Fear Microplastics More Than Heart Disease
About this episode
The episode discusses the disparity in fear between microplastics and heart disease, exploring how our perception of risk is influenced by media and online content.
Your brain is not broken, it’s doing what it was designed to do: panic over vivid, rare threats and ignore the slow, familiar ones. That’s the risk perception gap, and it’s why a headline about hantavirus can feel more urgent than the everyday drivers of cardiovascular disease, even though heart disease remains a top killer worldwide. We get candid about how fear gets “calibrated” online, why viral health content often misses the point, and how to stop stepping over dollars to pick up pennies...
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