"You remember hat beside the dead man?"

"Yes," said Holmes; "by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road."

Greyson looked quite crestfallen. "I had no idea that you noticed that," he said. "Have you been there?"

"No."

"Ha!" cried Greyson, in a relieved voice; "you should never neglect a chance, however small it may seem."

"To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes sententiously.

From "A Study in Scarlet", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1883

The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything.

That’s why one of the articles I’ve appended below reads “suicide rates have tripled among young girls between ages ten and 14. Experts don’t know why the troubling trend is happening, but some say an earlier onset of puberty, a lack of resources, and societal expectations may all be factors.”

Another story below is headlined "Youth suicide rates are rising. School and the Internet may be to blame."

You’ll see how they carefully avoided the big Tell, that it hits the girls the worst. And why didn’t they mention that early-onset-of-puberty driver?

The story focuses on "Youth", and carefully avoids mentioning that suicide also rising sharply among middle-aged white people, who are not in school. Particularly women.

That article goes on to talk about bullying, and seasonality, and upsetting internet viewing.

Another is headlined “Suicide rates on the rise in US, especially in rural areas, CDC reports”.

It talks about the financial crisis, social isolation and opioids as drivers, but it doesn’t make any mention of bullying, seasonality, or upsetting internet viewing, or school. 

A story documenting a doubling of suicides among women in prison chalks it up to the fact that “reforms proposed 10 years ago to prevent vulnerable women killing themselves were not implemented.”

If we know that “the CDC found that men are about four times likelier to commit suicide”, why no mention of vulnerable men, or an increase in male suicide in prison?

Each story has concocted its own cocktail of plausible-deniability excuses designed to carefully steer you away from the real driver. The investigation is moved whenever possible away from women and girls, and none mentions smart phones.

Despite red-alert numbers for women, triple digit increases for young girls, the talking head steers the dialogue away from them, back to men:

“The gender gap is narrowing for pretty much every group except Asians,” Curtain said. “But even though percentage-wise, the increases have been greater for women, for every race group the numbers are still highest for men.”

Read the following paragraph, and marvel at how carefully they’ve avoided saying “women and young girls”:

“Over this time, the CDC found that men are about four times likelier to commit suicide, and both Native Americans and whites are about two to three times more at risk than other groups. Children, also, are at about a third of the risk of adults. The suicide rate worsened in most categories by about 10 to 20 percent after 2008, with a lower rate of rise among black people, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Latinos.”

That’s rich, in that we learn in another story below “U.S. suicide rates up, especially among women, but down for black males.”

Why does the U.S. government say “lower rate of rise among black people”, when the rate dropped 8% for black men during that time period? Cons, confidence games are subtle, and careful, and precise - that's a very specific tuning, to take away the Tell of "dropped, anomalously, among black men".

And, if bullying, social isolation, opioids and lack of proper mental health care are drivers of this phenomenon, as alleged in other articles, how did black men escape those pitfalls?

"The CDC report, based on county-level mortality data between 2000 and 2015, reveals first a slow rising trend and then a noticeable spike around 2008."

"Spike" is a ruse - it's a repellant, oft-used meme word that states that numbers have shot up, but have shot or will shoot right back down again, forming a "spike" on the graph. They haven't gone up, then down again...they're skyrocketing, and continuing to climb. It's always used this way: to lie, to hedge, to blunt, to defray.

“The number of suicides increased among all racial groups except for black males, who saw an 8% decline in suicide rate from 10.5 to 9.7 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2014, respectively. The largest increases were among American Indians and Alaska Natives; in this group, the suicide rate climbed by 89% among women and 38% among men. Suicide rates among white women and white men increased by 60% and 28%, respectively.”

Can you see how they held "white women" until the very, very, very last? That's called "burying it" in journalistic parlance.

The suicide rates for females increased 40% and 30% more, in those examples, than for men. What’s the driver, what’s the variable? Why weren’t black women mentioned? I looked it up – suicides increased 2.5% for black women. Why are they increasing for black women, but decreasing, signally, for black men? There's that female variable again. Screaming like a "dive" klaxon on a submarine.

It almost seems fruitless, trying to convince anyone of something so painfully obvious. A tripling among young girls? 30 and 40 percent higher increases among women, vs. men?

So I guess this is more for the record, than anything. Saying “at least I spoke up”.

April 22, 2016 - U.S. suicide rates up, especially among women, but down for black males

The number of suicides increased among all racial groups except for black males, who saw an 8% decline in suicide rate from 10.5 to 9.7 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2014, respectively. The largest increases were among American Indians and Alaska Natives; in this group, the suicide rate climbed by 89% among women and 38% among men. Suicide rates among white women and white men increased by 60% and 28%, respectively.

April 22, 2016 - White women also had a large increase of 60 percent in suicide rates from 1999 to 2014. White women accounted for 83 percent of the 9,660 women who committed suicide in 2014.

Black men were the only racial and gender group to lower their rate of suicide; it declined 8 percent between 1999 and 2014.

“The gender gap is narrowing for pretty much every group except Asians,” Curtain said. “But even though percentage-wise, the increases have been greater for women, for every race group the numbers are still highest for men.”

 March 20, 2017 – Suicide rates on the rise in US, especially in rural areas, CDC reports

The CDC report, based on county-level mortality data between 2000 and 2015, reveals first a slow rising trend and then a noticeable spike around 2008. The researchers speculate that the financial crisis, which particularly devastated more rural communities, was a big part of the reason why, but other risks specific to rural areas include more poverty and social isolation, fewer mental health resources, and the prevalence of opioids.

March 27, 2017 – Suicides among female inmates have been on the rise, with 12 recorded last year – more than double than the number in 2015.

Nigel Newcomen says reforms proposed 10 years ago to prevent vulnerable women killing themselves were not implemented

April 7, 2017 - New report shows rising suicide rates among girls in the US

If you’re raising a daughter, here’s a statistic you need to know: in the past 15 years, suicide rates have tripled among young girls between ages ten and 14. Experts don’t know why the troubling trend is happening, but some say an earlier onset of puberty, a lack of resources, and societal expectations may all be factors.

Over this time, the CDC found that men are about four times likelier to commit suicide, and both Native Americans and whites are about two to three times more at risk than other groups. Children, also, are at about a third of the risk of adults. The suicide rate worsened in most categories by about 10 to 20 percent after 2008, with a lower rate of rise among black people, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Latinos.

May 30, 2017 - Youth suicide rates are rising. School and the Internet may be to blame.

Kids' media getting 'more and more graphic'

Nelson, the doctor at Cincinnati Children’s, said he’s amazed at how much information youth has access to — some of which can be traumatizing. In addition to things like cyberbullying, he said, kids can now easily access information about how to hurt themselves. 
 
“The media that children are exposed to gets more and more sophisticated and more and more graphic and so kids get exposed to more and more things,” he said.
 
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has said his office wants to examine a computer that Gabriel owned for any clues to his suicide. 
 
Although the CDC says that the majority of young people report little to no involvement in electronic aggression, it is still an emerging public health problem.