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David, you're raising a very good point - I'm wondering whether Haidt and others ever responded to this?

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I do not think Haidt has addressed this problem, though I may have missed something as I've been concentrating and other topics last six months.

Haidt and his assistant Zach, however, recently decided to look into my abandonment deaths theory and today they mentioned it in their footnote to a post by Jean Twenge:

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One additional explanation we are investigating is “abandonment deaths,” an interesting argument made by David Stein.

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For a brief expo of my theory, see

https://shoresofacademia.substack.com/p/youth-suicide-rise

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