Comment by cryzinger on 26/11/2024 at 19:24 UTC

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View submission: About loneliness and how our interactions are reducing day by day

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Also, "blue zones" have been pretty thoroughly debunked[1], and Jonathan Haidt is a crank lol.

1: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/sep/ucl-demographers-work-debunking-blue-zone-regions-exceptional-lifespans-wins-ig-nobel-prize

My favorite rebuttal to The Anxious Generation is that there *is* a correlation between teens receiving mental health diagnoses and teens using social media... but also a(n arguably much stronger) correlation between teens receiving mental health diagnoses and teens having more access to mental health professionals thanks to ACA coverage. Almost like you can't get diagnosed with anything unless you can see someone to diagnose you :P

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Comment by hampa9 at 27/11/2024 at 06:03 UTC

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The other rebuttal is that the effects of social media on mental health weren’t replicated in studies in other developed countries. Pretty much blows apart his hypothesis and he could not answer to it on his latest book tour.