Especially ones that make fundamentally scientific claims, but can’t support their central thesis even with indirect evidence, so they decorate their article wi

Especially ones that make fundamentally scientific claims, but can’t support their central thesis even with indirect evidence, so they decorate their article with noncentral mini-tangents just so they can link to some studies. There’s a pretense of rigor here sitting on top of the same “kids are growing up different” FUD we’ve seen a million times. The mere ability to make such an observation seems to be pretty uncorrelated with there actually being a reason for concern.