I think it is poor. He seems oblivious to the fact that there are longer-term RCTs on withdrawal, and that ANTLER was not included in the review's primary analysis! He writes with authority yet makes very basic errors.....

I think it is poor. He seems oblivious to the fact that there are longer-term RCTs on withdrawal, and that ANTLER was not included in the review's primary analysis! He writes with authority yet makes very basic errors.....

...the commercial use of the C-SSRS, and her family owns stock in Bristol-Myers Squibb. More of the compromised same....

7/ To challenge this, we must re-anchor young people’s aspirations in movements for economic justice that confront power directly - not in Tate-like fantasies of personal ascendancy in comtempt of a world whose fate probably deserves to rot far below.

6/ What looks like entrepreneurial hyper-masculine freedom regularly masks a retreat from mature collective action, reinforcing neoliberal/libertarian ideologies and weakening the potential for substantive reform.

5/ These promises of ‘rising above’ the foray below obscure the structural causes of inequality, reframing failure as individual weakness (get to the gym!) rather than a product of economic and political arrangements that need to be challenged.

4/ The effect is a depoliticisation of young people’s economic grievances, redirecting frustration into right-wing promises of personal ascendancy rather than towards hard enagement with systemic reform

3/ Crucially, these narratives are not neutral. They’re actively co-opted by reactionary figures often on the right (Andrew Tate, crypto maximalists, and others) who weaponise wealth fantasies to pull youth away from political & socially ethical engagement.

2/ These structurally-generated fears & concerns foster susceptibility to narratives promising rapid wealth accumulation via non-traditional routes: crypto, day trading, influencer hustles; schemes that foreground individual gain over collective progress.