we have gone from medical diagnoses to adopting viral labels
Social media has changed the way we understand, share and fear for our health. In this accelerated ecosystem, certain expressions born in science—or on its margins—propagate with astonishing rapidity. We have all heard words like microplastics, cortisol or, most recently, endocrine disruptors. Cold, technical terms, which nevertheless burn on TikTok and Instagram, turned into universal … Read more