and Do we know whether social media is bad for kids is the world central

kitchen tragedy and inflection point in the Gaza War and doesn't make any sense for

Richard Dawkins to be a so-called cultural Christian.

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry and I'm joined as always or at least some of the time by Jackie B, Jack Butler,

Noah Noah Rothman and the notorious MBD.

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MBD Jonathan Hate has been on the case for a while,

arguing that social media is responsible

for this really extraordinary down draft and mental well-being among young people, especially girls that's showing up in the data and the surveys and he has a new book out called The Anxious Generation.

60 Minutes did a segment on it. He's done a lot of podcasts.

It's engendered a lot of commentary, including a very critical review and I believe it was the journal Nature saying

look you know he's got to understand the difference between correlation and causation and

just what he's established is correlation. correlation and

correlation

what he makes it.

Yeah, I've been very interested in this debate for a long time and I have to say although I am you know I'm open to

hate skeptics in that I do think there's been a rise in diagnosis of

mental health issues and maybe self-reporting.

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