By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.

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    Them:

    I believe

    They admitted it’s just a theory.

    You:

    Adhd is not something environmental

    Alas, the only definitive assertion in this comment chain. It has been proven that there is a genetic component to ADHD, not that it is exclusively a genetic disorder.

    I also believe ADHD is partially environmental. I have diagnosed with and am treated for it.

    It’s not anti-science to believe something that hasn’t been disproven. It is anti-science to believe something that has been disproven (e.g. climate change-denying loons).

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      They admitted it’s just a theory.

      You don’t just “I have a theory that aliens caused it” and then start spreading it around like the OP i Was responding to did.

      It’s not anti-science to believe something that hasn’t been disproven.

      By that argument it’s not anti-scientific to believe in Gods and Astrology…

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        Belief in god or astrology is not anti-scientific, it is unscientific.

        Anti-scientific is evangelizing that the belief in god or astrology is a replacement for science.