Ep. 259 - Do You Get Extra Credit For Experiencing Tragedy?
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So you've read the headlines today. A brand spanking new study has found that doing away with |
| 0:04.8 | traditional marriage laws has supposedly reduced suicide rates among gay teenagers by a whopping |
| 0:09.2 | 14% in states that have embraced same-sex marriage. Here are just some of the glowing headlines. |
| 0:13.9 | PBS NewsHour, same-sex marriage laws linked to fewer youth suicide attempts, new study says. |
| 0:18.5 | Washington Post, legalizing same-sex marriage was associated with fewer youth suicide attempts, new study finds. Washington Post, legalizing same-sex marriage was associated with |
| 0:21.7 | fewer youth suicide attempts, new study finds. The Guardian, drop in teenage suicide attempts linked to |
| 0:26.5 | legalization of same-sex marriage. USA Today, study, teen suicide attempts fell as same-sex marriage was |
| 0:31.9 | legalized. These headlines, which are just a tiny sampling of the blanket media coverage this |
| 0:36.1 | study has received, obviously suggests that if conservatives would just drop their gold-darned old-fashioned opposition |
| 0:40.9 | to same-sex marriage, kids would stop killing themselves. |
| 0:43.8 | The study, printed in JAMA pediatrics, concludes that same-sex marriage policies, quote, |
| 0:48.2 | would be associated with more than 134,000 fewer adolescents attempting suicide every year. |
| 0:53.9 | There's only one problem. The study really |
| 0:55.9 | does not prove that. The study shows a basic correlation between loosening same-sex marriage |
| 1:00.2 | law and suicide rate, but it does not show that same-sex marriage policies reduced adolescent |
| 1:05.0 | suicide attempts as the study's conclusion state. In fact, the study itself acknowledges, |
| 1:09.8 | quote, our analysis does not allow us to |
| 1:12.2 | understand the mechanisms through which implementation of same-sex marriage policies reduced |
| 1:16.6 | to adolescent suicide attempts. In other words, they say they know same-sex marriage policies impacted |
| 1:21.3 | suicide attempts, but they have no idea how. Well then. They also failed to rule out some of the |
| 1:26.0 | most basic confounds for any sociological study like |
| 1:28.7 | this socioeconomic status of the students themselves is it possible the students are committing suicide |
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