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This is such an odd take! The NCBI link is an article put out by the The U.S. Surgeon General (that same one who warns about the tobacco industry you mention)!
by nl 2y ago
This is such an odd take!
The NCBI link is an article put out by the The U.S. Surgeon General (that same one who warns about the tobacco industry you mention)!
It's a well balanced take that shows both sides.
It's true that coverage of this issue is overwhelmingly about the risks. But the evidence itself is much more nuanced.
- Cupertino95014 2y ago[flagged]
- pfdietz 2y agoSo, find another study. The score so far is They: 1, You: 0.
- Cupertino95014 2y agowrong. It's common knowledge that social networks are harmful to teens. You're the one with work to do. I don't have to match a pro-tobacco post with a billion medical studies. When you contradict established fact, you're the person who has to prove it.
- pfdietz 2y agoI didn't think you had any evidence. All sorts of common knowledge has been utter BS. This sort of moral panic stuff is a class of canonical examples.
- Cupertino95014 2y agoWhy don't you read up on the responses to your "study", and tell us what they said? You don't get to make other people do research for you, so I'm not going to do that.
- pfdietz 2y agoSorry, you're responsible for providing the evidence for your own assertions. Making a claim and then insisting those questioning it find the evidence is a classic crank behavior.
- Cupertino95014 2y agoSorry, pfdietz, but I'm not responsible for proving to you that the Holocaust happened, Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK, tobacco is harmful, or diabetes is related to the pancreas. Or that social media is harmful to children. And "classic crank behavior" describes you.
- pfdietz 2y agoGoodness, now you're trying to equate me with holocaust deniers. The Holocaust, in case you didn't realize, has ample documentary evidence online that one can point to. Where is the equivalent for your position? Anyway, great invocation of Godwin's Law there. You have lost. I remind you of the First Rule of Holes: when you find yourself in one, stop digging.
- Cupertino95014 2y ago> You have lost You are not THE judge of that, nor in fact are you ANY judge. And I did not compare you to Hitler; I simply said that some facts do not merit the whiny question, "oh, do you have a link for that?" The debate about social media has already happened, and you're the one who lost. If you want some links, as it appears you do, just go to scholar.google.com and search "social media harms." It says "About 1,390,000 results." (that doesn't mean you would get that many if you kept scrolling, of course) Edit: we're done here. Have the last word if that's important to you.