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Fatally Flawed: Social Media Experiments Review by Christopher J. Ferguson
The methodology in Chris Ferguson's attempt to use meta-analysis to dismiss experimental evidence of social media harms is so bad as to verge on parody…
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David Stein
When Science is Seen as Sin (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Candice Odgers and Nature insinuate that Haidt is unethical and Odgers then implies that Haidt is harming children merely by proposing his social media…
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Unreliable Narrator (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Studies cited by Odgers to support her arguments outright undermine her assertions, raising the possibility that Nature intended her 'review' of Haidt's…
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Odgers versus Surgeon General (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Assertions by Candice Odgers imply that the Surgeon General is incompetent and guilty of spreading unfounded fears about social media.
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The Alternate Reality of Candice Odgers (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
Odgers' review of The Anxious Generation postulates a reality in which all evidence of substantial associations between digital technologies and…
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Falsehood and No Consequences (Nature's Review of The Anxious Generation)
The review of Haidt's new book by Candice Odgers may be a sign of an ongoing transition of Nature from science to ideology.
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Criticism Is A Double-Edged Sword
The purpose of this Substack newsletter was always criticism -- not the defense of tech. This is why its focus may shift for a while away from 'enemies…
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Censorship: How a National Academies Report Withheld Crucial Facts about Social Media and Adolescent Health
The Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health meticulously omitted from their report findings of higher risks of mental health…
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February 2024

Illusory Balance: How National Academies Trivialize Serious Risks Associated with Social Media
The report by the Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health uses factors like 'fun' and 'community' to offset harms such as…
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Corporate Agenda: How National Academies Protect Social Media Companies while Forsaking Science and Adolescents
The Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health attacks concerns over adolescent mental health in order to endorse the notion of a…
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Manufacturing Dissent: How a National Academies Report Misrepresents Consensus on Adolescent Mental Health as Chaotic Discord
The Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health spreads misinformation to imply that concerns over adolescent suicide 'crisis' -- and…
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National Academies Misinformation Undermines Concerns about Adolescent Mental Health
The Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health is spreading troubling misinformation in its effort to question the severity of…
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