Correlation ≠ causation. I would assume that people with underlying health conditions sleep less/worse on average. Some of those health conditions could in some cases cause cancer and in others some could be cancer. Now let me actually read the article and see if they took account of this.

Edit: It has a bunch of caveats at the end quoting someone saying things like i did but with some actually expertise, e.g.

“So if your immune system takes a bit of a hit, then I suppose it would make sense that your risk of some cancers may increase. But it also might be the other way around. It could be that if you have cancer, and it’s not yet clinically obvious, it could be causing some change in how you sleep.”

So don’t stay up at night more worring that doing so is causing cancer. There’s every chance it isn’t and there are just a few unlucky people that are creating the association, because they have some form already.

This is 14 days old. Why post it now? I think most people interested will already know.

I think this type of argument is relatively flawed. Obviously I’m very happy to leave one platform for another, but most people dont like change and want to be where thier friends are. I think it’s reasonable to expect them to get over the former, but because of the former they would probably have to leave their friends behind. Thats obviously not viable for teenagers and it’s a rare few that are willing to do that into thier 20s as well.

Seeing as getting people to make a move is so hard I think forcing these platforms not to be so vile would be a good move. We should put the onus on the platforms, not the users.