Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by peyton on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:51PM (#46839497)

I mean as of 2011 over half the native women are obese [1]. I don’t know what to make of it other than that’s a lot. Dr. Anne Becker may be really into preserving traditional Fijian culture or whatever but it sounds like some of the local girls don’t want to anymore.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26201444/

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by bobthepanda on Saturday January 31, 2026 @02:40PM (#46840009)

The introduction of body shaming media vs. actually improving obesity rates is pretty poorly correlated. Introducing anorexia, bulimia, and now bigorexia to a population is probably neutral or net negative.

If it wasn’t, you would have expected those rates to decline after the introduction of media informing people.

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by potatototoo99 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:46PM (#46841676)

I don't know, it works in Japan.

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by bobthepanda on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:45PM (#46850590)

One out of 190+ countries would be a poor correlation indeed.

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