[pillowkusis]

Thanks, I couldn't find the paper anywhere.

"Second, we were unable to assess whether the observed increase in youth suicide rates was attributable to the portrayal of suicide in the series."

This is so intellectually dishonest. It feels like a Motte and Bailey[0] argument. Scientists go around parading a correlation as causation. The title of the paper implies causality. They speculate idly about the causation in public. They make no effort to correct media sources suggesting a cause. And then, when challenged, they fall back on "well, nobody can establish causation here..."

I'm not even sure there's a correlation, let alone causation!

0: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey