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		pmarreck on April 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok How do we distinguish (potentially cherry-picked) claims made in such a book from a simple moral panic?

fergonco on April 29, 2024 [–]

Very easily: the book does not get moral at all. It just claims that there is scientific consensus about the damage that leisure screens make. This is quite easy to debunk, if false.

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