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This is good stuff! Open academic debates about all the nitty gritty of research and polling.

If this helps towards the goal of understanding and then solving the youth mental health crisis, it will all be worth it!

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Does it do us any good to know that something is generally true, or mostly true, with data like this?

We live in a time where there is a universe of conflicting information in our pockets at all times, so we have no choice but to trust our intuition, and many people's perceptions are not grounded in reality. Seeing constant threats when we live in the safest time to be alive in all of history.

Research is conducted by people. People who are fallible. People who have biases. People who are paid to find a particular result.

Theres nothing inherently wrong with science, institutions, religion, or social media. The human elements cause all the problems.

Ive got no choice but to tiptoe the line of uncertainty...on every issue. Its maddening, but the best option. Someone much smarter than me said something like "Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Certainty is."

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This seems to be a pissing contest amongst academics. I'm willing to bet there is grant money involved somewhere/somehow.

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Anecdotal evidence is just as powerful - when children can't sleep, and suffer from depression by irradiating their brains with blue light all night. Wireless radiation is the primary "algorithm" and weapon being used against our children that we should be worried about.

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/techmyth

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