Researchers Say Videogaming Does Not Cause Rickets

[Zac_Dai]

This is why its pointless to ever read or watch the news.

You'll actually be happier for it as well with all the scaremongering gone from your life.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

...Rickets. Seriously? Sorry, but the notion that there were ever headlines claiming "Videogames cause Rickets!!" is so mind-bogglingly ridiculous that I'm having trouble processing it.

Front page of the Metro on Friday. Let me see if I can find it.

Edit: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/810028-video-gaming-leads-to-surge-in-rickets

http://e-edition.metro.co.uk/2010/01/22/ to see it in full

Oh, I wasn't questioning that it did exist (obviously it does, or we wouldn't have this equally hilarious and baffling counterpoint), merely observing that the basic laws of the universe should really have prevented a headline like that from ever existing in the first place, and yet, in defiance of all natural law, somebody actually printed it.

Also now my brain hurts.

 

[Lexodus]

Researchers say videogaming also does not cause AIDS*

[sub]*unless you're playing on XBL[/sub]

 

[Booze Zombie]

Ha, ha, ha.

Kinda surprised to hear the scientists calling the journalists morons, but it's not an unpleasant surprise.

 

[Jared]

For once! A positive comment for games from the medical sector!

 

[Warstratigier]

For once! A positive comment for games from the medical sector!

and unsurprisingly, another insult from the journalistic sharks...

 

[MarxonSR1]

I can finally play the PS3 which has been gathering dust in my house.

It's nice to see some positive medical information on gaming amidst the amalgam of terrible press.

I concede there are obviously medical dangers with gaming, but the people who play enough to develop medical problems are well aware that they could, and don't care or have forgotten. But gaming is hardly the murdering, psychopathy inducing Pandora's box that it is made out to be.

 

[Andy_Panthro]

Dude. Its the Metro.... nuff said

also is anyone else slightly perturbed that the 'UK' based article has an image of a Cricket videogame? Pidgeonholing much?

I wouldn't mind so much, if the other newspapers didn't print the same sort of stuff day in day out... It's one of the reasons why we get things like the MMR panic.

 

[Bob_F_It]

Of course games don't cause rickets, especially if you play in the sun.

What do you mean you keep your XBox indoors?

 

[Scrythe]

Furthermore, Professor Pearce noted, "The average age of a child with rickets is around 20 months old: Too young to use a keyboard and mouse!"

Sometimes, I wonder...