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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by kevinh on Thursday November 28, 2024 @10:57AM (#42266184)
The Anxious Generation is poorly researched pop science book that people believe to be true because it feels intuitively right to them.
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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by acron0 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @11:03AM (#42266243)
Is this just your opinion, or is there a scientific retort I can read?
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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by skyyler on Thursday November 28, 2024 @11:31AM (#42266541)
Is Nature "scientific" enough?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by skyyler on Thursday November 28, 2024 @11:33AM (#42266571)
On the surface it seems very similar to a book he previously worked on, The Coddling of the American Mind which is also full of poorly researched pop science that confirms biases people already had.

Kind of an "airport book"

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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by jallbrit on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:09PM (#42266884)
Oh, a fellow If Books Could Kill podcast listener?

It's unfortunate that truth is so hard to come by these days.

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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by skyyler on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:46PM (#42268069)
Yes! That blend of information and humour is the only podcast format worth my time, to be honest.

There's another podcast with Michael Hobbes called Maintenance Phase that I also enjoy when I have time to listen to it. Fen-phen in particular was something I hadn't really heard of before and reading about it after their episode on it was just fascinating.

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Re:Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media a... by qball on Friday November 29, 2024 @01:12PM (#42275759)
Just like "the science" about brain development ages.
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