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Professionals, politicians, and media reporters: stop dodging uncomfortable realities on youth tragedies
It’s easier for authorities to stigmatize dead teens, lecture their peers, and blame “social media” than to admit troubling complications.
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Why do we keep letting culture warriors’ idiocies distract us from real issues?
Social-mediaphobes’ utter obsession with teens and porn is truly disturbing.
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Shocking Centers for Disease Control data should radically change the entire debate over social media, teens, depression, suicide…
It’s past time to stop screwing around with feel-good crusades and get serious about the sobering reasons many young people are depressed.
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May 2025

Youth need protection from legislators – not social media
Texas’s dangerous legislation to ban those under age 18 from social media accounts is dead for now but sure to be back, there and elsewhere
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Another massive study finds social media impacts even on younger teens’ mental health are minimal at worst
Wait… didn’t its authors say that “higher…social media use” is associated “with greater depressive symptoms” among 9-12-year-olds? Let’s examine what…
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Cops, politicians, media reporters: Stop lying about "youth crime"
Those who keep shoving young people out of society deserve the same shaming Joseph Welch hurled at demagogic Senator Joe McCarthy: “Have you no sense of…
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Enough derangement on “boys and social media”
Youth Derangement Syndrome and Social Media Derangement Syndrome have merged into ugly boy-bashing
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The life-and-death reality anti-social-media lawsuits are evading
Court cases against social media platforms rely on wildly exaggerated claims of imagined harm but present almost no evidence of real harm.
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The “ban teens from everything” nanny-panics are what is really harming youth – and society
Teens benefit from “risky, unsupervised” opportunities to grow, social-media nannies declare. Why, then, aren't they using their attention-getting…
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April 2025

What does this huge teenage alone-time trend mean?
From the mid-1970s to 2002, the proportion of high schoolers spending an hour or more alone every day stayed at around 40%. Then, the proportion…
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The wild acclaim for Netflix’s Adolescence has degenerated into ugly hate speech
Authorities, advocates, and its filmmakers insist the series’ fictional UK knife killing story is a mass statement on all “boys today.” That’s false …
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Social media use tied to LESS suicide, self-harm among teenage girls
Analysis exposes the dangerous warping of pivotal Centers for Disease Control surveys on teens’ suicides, self-harm, and social media use
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