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Today’s question is about plastic, but really it’s about panic headlines. We are increasingly awash in new studies, new findings, and new headlines covering them. I love data, as you well know, but if we react to every new piece of evidence, it will drive us crazy and, as the questioner below says, make us think we’re doing it wrong. My antidote to this is to look carefully at what…