Expert disagreement persists on any aspect of social-media harm data

Evidence

You can also find experts (academics, people with advanced degrees and university positions) who will argue with you about basically any aspect of all that data—all that research. We talk more, below, about the larger history of scientific controversies, and we situate the current “debate” with respect to a set of earlier moments when the best empirical practices took a very long time to achieve consensus on something TOTALLY OBVIOUS (cigarette smoking and cancer, anyone?). — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 110

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the manufactured-controversy playbook (Oreskes-Merchants of Doubt) as a pattern for dismissing evident harm. — connects to: Expert dissent persists on social media harms despite strong evidence. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 110; Industries dispute harm by fabricating controversy and manipulating evidence thresholds — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1620; Disputing evidence of harm blocks self-censure, driving credibility battles — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 441 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Expert dissent persists on social media harms despite strong evidence. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 110; Industries dispute harm by fabricating controversy and manipulating evidence thresholds — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1620; Disputing evidence of harm blocks self-censure, driving credibility battles — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 441 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Expert dissent persists on social media harms despite strong evidence. #corroborates (0.92) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 110
• Industries neutralize moral concerns by disputing evidence of harm rather than changing practices #complicates (0.74)
• Disputing evidence of harm blocks self-censure, driving credibility battles #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 441