No, using your phone won’t cause ADHD

TIME reports that teens who are constantly on their phones may be at risk of ADHD. But their headline ignores the differences between causation and correlation.

Blink and you miss it, but at the start of the second paragraph, the TIME article admits the research “could not prove causation”.

And this is everything.

With cause and effect, one action directly causes another. Without this, they are merely two things that appear to happen at the same time. Like murder and ice cream. Murder rates...