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Not another “teenage panic.” Call in the National Guard!
The meanest scapegoatings Right and Left agree on are brainless attacks on youth and blaming social-media.
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How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends”
Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.
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Good for them! United Kingdom teenagers are easily defying the dumb, dangerous “Online Safety Act”
Teens’ open defiance of ill-motivated official social media restrictions and private information exposure endangering them is crucial to saving…
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July 2025

Authorities ignore teenage rape and sexual abuse victims. Social media and smartphones are what’s making them depressed, we're told.
Political and health authorities ignore millions of “underage rape victims” unless, like Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficked girls, they prove useful to attack…
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Anti-youth/anti-social-media mania has gone off the rails. Politicians, academics, and media should stop worshiping delusional demagoguery.
Jonathan Haidt’s et. al. anti-tech extremism has become dangerous to young people and reasoned policy.
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Porn, predators,"flash mobs"… endless panics vilifying America’s best-acting teenaged generation threaten youths’ online and public rights
Wildly exaggerated pop-fears show why America is by far the most dangerous affluent or even second-world country – and teens aren’t the problem.
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More bad “research” on youth misinforms health policy
American health experts’ biases and blindness are big drivers of the depression and death rates among young Americans they constantly bewail
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The Jeffrey Epstein disgrace shows – again – that American authorities protect themselves first and young people last
The elites! How they might suffer! Let’s obsess over that.
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New media-hyped studies show again why nearly all “research” on teenagers and social media is junk
Journal editors and reviewers need to crack down on authors who wildly exaggerate near-nothing social “science” findings that omit crucial factors
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Crusades to ban teens from social media, books, public places, and just about everything all exploit the same ugly distortions and…
Rising banish-youth crazes aren’t about safety, mental health, or “protecting children.” They're about repression and evading disturbing truths.
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June 2025

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