Video link: https://youtu.be/jrJxb6ePq1c

Ya’ll, I hope you are ready to be hit with ✨science✨

Also known as: Watch me stumble over the word “synthetic” for almost 20 minutes straight. 🙃

With special thanks to @Shannon Makes and my lovely partner for valuable feedback during the drafting stage. Think I am getting too political with the science? Science never has been, and will never be neutral.

Since I am pushing my academic clout in this video, you can find my published articles here, and my PhD thesis here.

Full, descriptive literature list below, since YouTube character limits would only allow me to fit the URLs themselves.

Bibliography:

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