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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Odin2005

(53,521 posts) Mon Dec 17, 2012, 09:05 PM Dec 2012

Here comes the "video games cause school shootings" nonsense.

That didn't take long.

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Here comes the "video games cause school shootings" nonsense. (Original Post) Odin2005 Dec 2012 OP

Ohio Joe has taken up the good fight, uriel1972 Dec 2012 #1

I used to have that decathalon game for the Atari 2600 lizerdbits Dec 2012 #2

Of course it's also coming from the JoeyT Dec 2012 #3

In the UK, blaming video games for everything is so Nineties LeftishBrit Dec 2012 #4

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

1. Ohio Joe has taken up the good fight,

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 01:12 AM

Dec 2012

but I don't like his chances.

lizerdbits

(3,443 posts)

2. I used to have that decathalon game for the Atari 2600

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 10:16 PM

Dec 2012

and I have yet to compete in track and field events in the almost 30 years since playing.

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)

3. Of course it's also coming from the

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 12:41 AM

Dec 2012

very same people that blame video games for everything. Which are the same kind of people that blamed grunge when I was a kid, heavy metal ten years before that, D&D ten years before that, pot ten years before that, rock music ten years before that...

Some people just need a simple answer they can rally behind, doesn't matter how unrealistic it is.

LeftishBrit

(41,305 posts)

4. In the UK, blaming video games for everything is so Nineties

Reply to JoeyT (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:21 PM

Dec 2012

Nowadays, it's Facebook and other social media.

Susan Greenfield, who really should know better, has even implied that the (supposedly) increased rate of autism might be linked to over-use of social media. Considering that autism by definition must be present by the age of three, and few toddlers use Facebook, this is not very logical.

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