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"Opinion piece"? Did you read it?
Did you? Sure, it quotes a study, but its otherwise a bunch of quotes from one of the study authors, an author who has a definite idea of what to blame:
Smart phones, and nothing else. Let's hope he's better at conducting studies than he is at staying abreast of current events, but yeah, this non-sense is close to cream-of-the-crop for the ~~Scientific American~~livescience.com "articles" that are always cluttering my Lemmy feed. Okay, so I confused one site for another, but we should demand better of more respectable sites, as well as round-filing the utter garbage.
It literally says "We don't fully know yet, but this is what we think in the meantime with what we do know". I mean, the first 5 words in your screenshot are "There is no definitive consensus", which is a far cry from "smart phones, and nothing else". I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with that, or how that falls into "opinion piece" territory.
No, dude literally said at the end that he had no idea what else would be the cause. That's a pretty damn strong opinion in the face of everything that's happened in recent decades.