Renée Fleming: No, but interestingly, when I’m in an opera, the earworms are never what I have learned in my own music. It’s always what someone else is singing. It’ll just be a brief phrase and I can’t get rid of it. I don’t know if there’s science about earworms.
Francis Collins: Not enough for the amount of distress they cause.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/conversation-renee-fleming-and-francis-collins