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Newsnight follows up a Daily Mail article in which Susan Greenfield claims that social networking websites can reprogramme children's brains. Jeremy Paxman chairs a brief debate between Ben Goldacre (www.badscience.net) and Aric Sigman (who a few days earlier claimed in an article in Biologist that social networking websites are harmful to health.

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  • I saw both Greenfield and Goldacre speak (separately, on different topics) at the British Science Festival, and Greenfield slagged off Goldacre in her talk on this topic!

    I don't think the idea that internet can cause you harm is absurd, but Greenfield and Sigman and stereotype Mail readers don't seem to understand how people actually use internet and seem to say things are bad simply because they are not traditional. :-/

    Ben Goldacre ftw.

  • Social networking made me a hermit :(

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  • Goldacre is the one who is talking rubbish if you pay attention!

    I had no idea he was such a creep from his Guardian column.

  • Paxo just doesn't give a shit about this topic...

  • I do love the idea some Mail readers have that if children were not on the internet they would be exercising outside in a healthy way and not sitting watching TV or listening to music all day as I did in the eighties when I was a kid.

  • Did anyone else hear the guy say "I don't know and I haven't done research" and then continue with the bullshit he's spewing??

  • @DontHassleTheHoff121 I was almost certain I misheard that... how stupid can one person honestly be??

  • does anyone else notice he says 'just under half of 18-17 year olds'? That's disgraceful!

  • Sigman completely missed the point...

  • Ben Goldacre - FUCK YEAH!!

  • I love how pissed off Paxman is about having to breathe to maintain his life

  • "Just leave there for a while?" What a bastard.

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