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sex, speech, tech, justice, parenting, politics, & panic ✨ senior editor @reason.com‬, journalism instructor at University of Cincinnati, Midwestern mom
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈
Lots of differences b/w places where mobile coverage was high & those where it wasn't. Are we really looking at iPhone effects, or just urban vs. rural fertility trends during the Great Recession?
P.S. We should also keep in mind that fertility rate drops below 2 are not a post-iPhone development in many places! Many dips started in the 1960s and '70s and were much steeper late last century than over the past two decades.
The authors didn't measure how many people in their study areas actually had iPhones or whether birth rates actually dropped more among iPhone users. They just measured overall birth rates in areas with more or less AT&T mobile network coverage b/w 2007-2011.
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Bottom line: Even if phones play some role, the mechanism may not be alarming and the evidence is far from settled. reason.com/2026/06/10/t...
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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“When The Plains Sentinel contacted Nebraska’s state police about Waugh’s claim of 30,000 annual trafficking tips, a spokesman quickly admitted the colonel was mistaken. In fact, there were only 88 such calls in 2025….” @enbrown.bsky.social @maggiemcneill.bsky.social
Again, @enbrown.bsky.social debunks some of our constant phone panic. 'Alas, we live in a period of total paranoia and doom about smartphones...I want to look (once again) at why this fatalistic view is unwarranted and how the hype about phones & fertility doesn't hold up' reason.com/2026/06/10/t...
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To the extent that phones have contributed, it’s important to think about *how* they did so. People seem to prefer to blame porn & social media. What about phones spreading information & norms that empowered people to feel like they have more of a choice about when and whether to marry & have kids?
I am humbly begging people to stop acting like a drop in unintended pregnancies among teen girls is some great tragedy Also to look at what this new NBER paper actually measured before making grand pronouncements about phones killing fertility. reason.com/2026/06/10/t...
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A new NBER study suffers from the same flaws plaguing previous research on phones and fertility rates.
The smartphone theory of birth rate decline still doesn't hold up
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Elizabeth Nolan Brown