The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says doctors should routinely check on screen time and social media use when seeing younger patients.
  • Mike@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The title of the article on the BBC page currently reads:

    Streeting backs under-16s social media ban as government consultation concludes

    And a quote from the article:

    There is no consensus among the wider scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It should be fraud for the title to directly say the opposite of the article.

      I get they also asked a bunch of charities and trade groups… but why?

      • discostjohn@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Times change. You can’t exist in 2026 and raise kids like you would have in 1996. You can’t have an experiment without a control, and there’s no such thing as a control when it comes to raising children