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The Anxious Generation is poorly researched pop science book that people believe to be true because it feels intuitively right to them.
by kevinh 2y ago
The Anxious Generation is poorly researched pop science book that people believe to be true because it feels intuitively right to them.
- acron0 2y agoIs this just your opinion, or is there a scientific retort I can read?
- skyyler 2y agoIs Nature "scientific" enough? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2
- skyyler 2y agoOn the surface it seems very similar to a book he previously worked on, The Coddling of the American Mind, which is also full of poorly researched pop science that confirms biases people already had. Kind of an "airport book"
- jallbrit 2y agoOh, a fellow If Books Could Kill podcast listener? It's unfortunate that truth is so hard to come by these days.
- skyyler 2y agoYes! That blend of information and humour is the only podcast format worth my time, to be honest. There's another podcast with Michael Hobbes called Maintenance Phase that I also enjoy when I have time to listen to it. Fen-phen in particular was something I hadn't really heard of before and reading about it after their episode on it was just fascinating.
- qball 2y agoJust like "the science" about brain development ages.