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by crazydoggers 634 days ago
Debunked isn’t the correct term here. That would imply that the data is false or it’s misinformation. Instead the article you linked states:

    On the other hand, data on this issue is mixed, and some studies contradict one another.
So a better way to talk about it is that the data doesn’t yet make a cut or dry case one way or another.

Another quote from the article you linked

    Haidt argues that waiting for stronger evidence could be even more dangerous. He writes: “If you listen to the alarm ringers and we turn out to be wrong, the costs are minimal and reversible. But if you listen to the skeptics and they turn out to be wrong, the costs are much larger and harder to reverse.” … as a mother, as someone who writes about the harms of tech and tech companies, I see his point.
So even if we don’t take the data to be 100% convincing, it’s by no means “debunked” and something that we should just completely ignore.