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Jonathan Haidt’s Book ‘The Anxious Generation’ Is Coddling The American Parent; Giving Them Clear, Simple & Wrong Explanations For What’s Ailing Teens
Jonathan Haidt’s new book, “The Anxious Generation,” has become a NY Times bestseller, and he’s making media appearances basically everywhere you look, telling people that social media has “rewired…
Ditto Jeff Hancock, at Stanford, who recently helped put together the National Academies of Sciences report on social media and adolescent health(which also did not find what Haidt found). And my biggest concern in all this is that by playing up a new moral panic to sell books and the “Jonathan Haidt brand,” real harm is caused: By coddling the American parent, and letting them think they can cure what ails kids by simply limiting the internet access, real harm can be caused.
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