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But the skeptics are not always right. I think it is a very good thing that alarms were rung about teen smoking, teen pregnancy, drunk driving, and the exposure of children to sex and violence on TV. The lesson of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is not that after two false alarms we should disconnect the alarm system. In that story, the wolf does eventually come.

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But the skeptics are not always right. I think it is a very good thing that alarms were rung about teen smoking, teen pregnancy, drunk driving, and the exposure of children to sex and violence on TV. The lesson of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is not that after two false alarms we should disconnect the alarm system. In that story, the wolf does eventually come.
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Just Another Amy (justanotheramy@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 17:22:52 JST Just Another Amy
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He's upping the stakes listing more consequential issues supposedly as counterexamples: but the rhetoric in this paragraph is focused on working to undermine the credibility of skeptics, and those examples are decontextualised. "Teen pregnancy" for instance is a hot button culture wars topic, largely created by the abstinence-only sex ed that purports to prevent it.

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