Science Says 13 Reasons Why May Be the Public Health Scare People Thought
In March, when Netflix quietly dropped its original teen suicide mystery series 13 Reasons Why, it took a few days for people to start freaking out. But soon, schools started sending home notes warning parents about the show\u2019s graphic depictions of suicide and rape. Psychologists wrote op-eds denouncing its disregard for the World Health Organization\u2019s suicide portrayal guidelines. News outlets published more than 600,000 stories about it. And then, there was Twitter.