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Search results for "Social media is 'one of the least influential factors' in teen depression and anxiety"

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Nikki Haley stated on June 04, 2023 in a CNN town hall:
Having "biological boys … in their locker rooms” is a reason why “a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• June 6, 2023
Matt Walsh stated on February 08, 2023 in a Tennessee State House Committee Hearing:
“The youth suicide rate has increased exponentially alongside trans affirmation. Trans affirmation causes the suicide rate, not the other way around.”
By Grace Abels• March 8, 2023
Instagram posts stated on January 01, 2023 in an image shared on Instagram:
“All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.”
By Madison Czopek• January 17, 2023
Rand Paul stated on January 14, 2015 in a speech in New Hampshire:
"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts."
By Steve Contorno• January 16, 2015
Gen. Peter Chiarelli stated on August 08, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
About 106,000 soldiers had "a prescription of three weeks or more" for pain, depression or anxiety medication.
By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 10, 2010
Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children stated on July 15, 2010 in a newsletter:
By 12th grade, "more than 3 out of 10 girls have been pregnant at least once."
By Willoughby Mariano• July 22, 2010
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on January 07, 2026 in a press briefing:
Says “90% of health care spending treats chronic disease.”
By Grace Abels• February 19, 2026
Hillary Clinton stated on June 02, 2016 in a foreign policy speech:
"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."
By Louis Jacobson• June 6, 2016
Elon Musk stated on February 16, 2024 in a post:
There is “clear scientific consensus” that “hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression and triples risk of suicide.”
By Samantha Putterman• February 23, 2024
Ben Sasse stated on May 31, 2018 in a statement:
"We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression."
By Louis Jacobson• May 31, 2018
Nancy Grace stated on January 14, 2014 in a segment on 'Nancy Grace':
People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families."  
By Katie Sanders• January 24, 2014
Patrick Kennedy stated on January 21, 2014 in an interview with MSNBC:
Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.
By Steve Contorno• January 24, 2014
Hillary Clinton stated on October 27, 2016 in a get-out-the-vote rally in North Carolina:
"We are seeing kids who are healthier."
By Jon Greenberg• October 28, 2016
Instagram posts stated on May 07, 2023 in a post shared on Instagram:
Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health “in North Carolina are diagnosing toddlers who play with stereotypically opposite gender toys as having gender dysphoria and are beginning to transition them!!”
By Madison Czopek• May 10, 2023
Jim Jordan stated on March 22, 2011 in an interview on the Fox Business Channel:
The federal government has "77 different means-tested social welfare programs."
By Stephen Koff• April 5, 2011
Mitch McConnell stated on February 17, 2010 in a press release:
The stimulus includes "$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen."
By Robert Farley• February 19, 2010
Facebook posts stated on September 05, 2018 in a Facebook post:
On Sept. 5, 1993, "Vince Foster went to Fort Marcy Park and shot himself 3 times in the back of the head to avoid testifying against Hillary Clinton."
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 8, 2019
Maria Sachs stated on October 01, 2013 in a press conference at AutoNation in Fort Lauderdale:
"In 2011, texting surpassed alcohol as the leading contributing factor in teen driving deaths."  
By Rochelle Koff• October 29, 2013
Madison Cawthorn stated on September 14, 2021 in a speech to the Johnston County school board:
Children and teen suicide attempts “skyrocketed 250% in 2020” according to “one study done by a hospital.”
By Paul Specht• September 28, 2021
Rick Santorum stated on April 10, 2015 in a speech to the NRA:
Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."
By Louis Jacobson• April 15, 2015

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