Surprising Centers for Disease Control numbers show teenage girls, especially those with drug/alcohol abusing parents, have LOWER rates of suicide and self-harm the MORE they use social media.| Mike’s Substack
Yet, authorities keep insisting it’s just smartphones, TikTok, and social media making teens depressed.| Mike’s Substack
Today’s much rarer young killers are scarier than yesterday’s larger numbers? You’ve got to be joking.| Mike’s Substack
Mass and celebrity shootings become even more tragic when authorities and commentators exploit them to inflame vicious campaigns targeting powerless groups.| mikemales.substack.com
Recent, increasingly optimistic studies of teens and social media are displacing older, poorly-grounded studies (updated).| mikemales.substack.com
We all love love love “critical thinking"... in theory. We almost never practice it – and never on youth and social media issues.| Mike’s Substack
Why are progressives who champion diversity and multiculturalism sabotaging multiracial Gen Z when they should be touting young people's stunningly positive trends?| Mike’s Substack
Right-wingers don’t care what I say. So, I direct my ineffectual rage at progressives: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?| Mike’s Substack
The Economist-hyped study actually found cellphone bans brought “no significant changes in overall student well-being, academic motivation, digital usage, or experiences of online harassment.”| mikemales.substack.com
Progressive podcasters’ escalating vilifications against young White men following Charlie Kirk’s shooting are as factless and deranged as MAGA rantings. The shocking counter-realties are below.| Mike’s Substack
Left-Right culture warriors only care about the tiny number of school shooters and assassins they can deplore as internet-radicalized “young men”| Mike’s Substack
“Who is granted humanity and who isn’t exposes the miserable character of our age.” - columnist/podcaster Owen Jones after right-wing celebrity Charlie Kirk was assassinated.| Mike’s Substack
If a teenager’s murder, suicide, or overdose can superficially be blamed on social media, young peers, or AI, authorities and media erupt. The other 99%? Distortions abound.| mikemales.substack.com
America’s response to tragic murders of children follows a rigid rule: obsession with rare, easily deplored cases versus complete indifference to widespread killings.| Mike’s Substack
Crime and violence are down; youth crime has plummeted -- everywhere. But for those interested in my refutation to Breaking Points' Saagar Enjeti's crazed rants, here's the latest link.| Mike’s Substack
The anti-social-media panic backfires when moral consistency intrudes.| mikemales.substack.com
This is tiresome. After this, I’m taking a break from investigating the endless carelessness and outright lying police, officials, “experts,” and reporters indulge.| Mike’s Substack
The meanest scapegoatings Right and Left agree on are brainless attacks on youth and blaming social-media.| Mike’s Substack
Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.| mikemales.substack.com
Teens’ open defiance of ill-motivated official social media restrictions and private information exposure endangering them is crucial to saving democracy.| Mike’s Substack
Political and health authorities ignore millions of “underage rape victims” unless, like Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficked girls, they prove useful to attack enemies.| mikemales.substack.com
Wildly exaggerated pop-fears show why America is by far the most dangerous affluent or even second-world country – and teens aren’t the problem.| mikemales.substack.com
Journal editors and reviewers need to crack down on authors who wildly exaggerate near-nothing social “science” findings that omit crucial factors| mikemales.substack.com
Social-mediaphobes’ utter obsession with teens and porn is truly disturbing.| mikemales.substack.com
It’s past time to stop screwing around with feel-good crusades and get serious about the sobering reasons many young people are depressed.| mikemales.substack.com
Court cases against social media platforms rely on wildly exaggerated claims of imagined harm but present almost no evidence of real harm.| mikemales.substack.com
The vastly greater freedom, expression, and choice today’s technologies afford is why reactionary older generations raised on stultifying media seek to suppress them.| mikemales.substack.com
Do lots of people think this way? Maybe I’m the one who’s weird.| mikemales.substack.com
The 5-part FX documentary reveals that adults’ views of teens remain stuck in a never-changing time warp.| mikemales.substack.com
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “After Babel” substack compiles a mammoth load of nonsense showing how politicians and interests exploit young people as profitable commodities| mikemales.substack.com
Haidt’s concern for young people’s well-being is weirdly narrow: only the small fraction whose depression he blames on social media, and only those on campus he politically agrees with| mikemales.substack.com
We’re learning, slowly, after wasting so much time on authorities’ pointless obsession with social media. We still need to ask better questions.| mikemales.substack.com
Unlike Jonathan Haidt’s and colleagues’ wildly embellished paranoia toward the screen world, teens’ more practical views don’t grant social media apocalyptic power| mikemales.substack.com
It doesn't.| mikemales.substack.com
Elders incessantly demean Gen Z as “destroyed” by cellphones while past teens enjoyed wondrously idyllic “together” childhoods. What garbage. Teens should hold “lying-grownups-free Fridays” instead.| mikemales.substack.com
Surgeon General Vivek Murtha, popular psychologists Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge, and politicians ignored girls in order to blame social media.| mikemales.substack.com
Her latest apples-oranges comparisons of surveys and vital statistics, omissions of key data, flawed geographical comparisons, etc. severely understate the crisis| mikemales.substack.com
The Centers for Disease Control’s just-finalized 2022 death totals are appalling. Drugs claim a record toll. Suicide remains devastating.| mikemales.substack.com
Blaming screens for teens’ depression ignores grownups’ and parents’ skyrocketing self-destruction afflicting millions of young people.| mikemales.substack.com
If social-media is driving how Gen Z girls think and act, bring on more social media.| mikemales.substack.com
A reply to Jean Twenge| mikemales.substack.com
Far from harmfully “re-wiring” brains,” social media has small, generally beneficial effects on younger and older teens alike| mikemales.substack.com
