While 28.9% sounds like a shocking number, it was only a few dozen additional deaths. A few additional concerns with the paper: -The authors made no effort to

While 28.9% sounds like a shocking number, it was only a few dozen additional deaths. A few additional concerns with the paper: -The authors made no effort to try and determine if any of the people who died had seen the show, or even had heard of it. -Suicides were up the month before the show was released as well. -In fact, suicides in that age group had been trending up for years according to their data, which is not mentioned in the discussion of results at all.