Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering

Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering

Depression. It’s contagious. Through kissing. At least this is the conclusion of a new psychiatric study that has been covered and shared widely in the days since it’s been published. It was even mentioned on Stephen Colbert, sadly without irony. It was published in Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine, which is a journal so poor that the papers it publishes have only been cited by others 36 times in its entire lifetime. The journal f…