If you said some *specific phenomenon* could be attributed to social contagion then yes, you would be saying that
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The very next paragraph is him defending bringing it up by saying teenagers accuse each other of "saying they're trans for attention" all the time, which he seems to think is an incisive gotcha argument
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Which, honestly, is how social contagion is used in behavioural sciences. The core definition may sound benign, but it's used to describe undesirable spreads, like waves of suicides. https://web.stanford.edu/~kcarmel/CC_BehavChange_Course/readings/Additional%20Resources/social%20contagion/Social%20Contagion.htm …
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I agree it’s not a neutral phenomenon. But some people were trying to backpedal from the claim that “academics never say that” (which they do) to “even if they do say that they shouldn’t because it’s such a loaded term.” That claim is as bad as the first.
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