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Mike Males

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States that implemented school cellphone bans show big increase in suicide by teenagers

First, some background:

Since 2017, rates of suicide have fallen among children and youths in grades K-12 (ages 5-18). In 2024, Centers for Disease Control tabulations show school-age suicide rates had declined an encouraging 14% from thei...

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America’s callousness toward children and teenagers worsens as authorities shrug off widespread household abuses

Again, I suggest watching psychologist and social media scholar Candice Odgers’ TED talk and new interview by tech journalist Taylor Lorenz, the latest featuring a powerful scientific reality that “ban teens from social media” crusaders sim...

8 days ago
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Social-media alarmists’ own study posted by Jonathan Haidt finds Snapchat is astoundingly safe for children and teenagers

What a joke! Ban-teens-from-social-media crusader Jonathan Haidt’s substack is clarioning alarms over social media’s supposedly “wide range of harms affecting minors,” this time berating Snapchat.

Haidt cites an in-house study that tries r...

11 days ago
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Teenage boys show major declines in suicide across the globe as their social media use grew

The trend is amazing – and completely destroys the myths of rising teen self-destruction that are flooding major media and political forms.

Teenaged boys show plummeting suicide rates in country after country, from Korea and Australia to F...

14 days ago
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The “global increase in teenage girls’ suicides” driven by social media is a hoax. In fact, two out of three countries show declines in girls’ suicides

Ban-teens advocates constantly trumpet that social media must be torturing vastly more teenaged girls into self-destruction all over the globe. Psychologists Jonathan Haidt, Zach Rausch, and Jean Twenge advance the following logic: if girls...

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    Senior researcher, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice; YouthFacts.org. Taught sociology, psychology at University of California. Author of books/journal articles/ op-eds in The Lancet, American Journal of Public Health, New York Times, etc.

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