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Odgers recently stated the skeptics' case in an essay in Nature titled The Great Rewiring: Is Social Media Really Behind an Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness? The essay offered a critique of my recent book, The Anxious Generation. Odgers' primary criticism is that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that "there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children's brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness. She also warns that my ringing of a false alarm "might distract us from effectively responding to the real causes of the current mental-health crisis in young people," which, she suggests, are social ills such as racism, economic hardship, and the lingering impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and its disparate impact on children in low SES families.

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Odgers recently stated the skeptics' case in an essay in Nature titled The Great Rewiring: Is Social Media Really Behind an Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness? The essay offered a critique of my recent book, The Anxious Generation. Odgers' primary criticism is that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that "there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children's brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness. She also warns that my ringing of a false alarm "might distract us from effectively responding to the real causes of the current mental-health crisis in young people," which, she suggests, are social ills such as racism, economic hardship, and the lingering impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and its disparate impact on children in low SES families.
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Just Another Amy (justanotheramy@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 17:22:50 JST Just Another Amy
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Odgers critiqued his book for ignoring systemic factors like racism, economic hardship, and the 2008 GFC as plausible drivers of the youth mental health crisis. The author objects, framing it as a distraction from the “brain rewiring”. In doing so, he dismisses the challenge of accounting for real-world variables that complicate cause-and-effect claims, doubling down on his alarmist narrative instead of engaging with systemic issues.

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