In anarticlepublished Saturday, The Sun solidified its commitment toblaming games for everythingby repackaging an article about rickets in children with a contrived anti-gaming slant. The first article, which ran only one day prior, stated that doctors are se🤡eing a rise in rickets in children due to a vitamin D deficiency.
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The Sun then took some liberties with the story in order to run the sensationalist headline “Game a🅰ddict kids hit by 'extinct' bone disease,” as seen here:
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"The average age of a child with rickets is around 20 months old: too young to use a keyboard and mouse!" wrote Professor Simon Pearce.He went on to clarify that, while playing outside less is afactor in vitamin D deficiency (which sure, could be the res🌱ult of too much TV or gaming), overuse of sunblock and lack of sunlight in the UK are also contr🔥ibutors, and thus food supplementation is recommended.
🦹Dr. Timothy Cheethamput it bluntly, "[we] do not say that gaming causes rickets."
This case is nearly identic༒al. Doctors say that lackof sunlight can lead to rickets, soa sensationalist media outlet reports that videogames cause ricke♉ts. Brilliant.
Of course, by pointing this out, we're giving them more traffic and exposure - sorry.But we'renot just doing that, we're also having a laugh at their expense. Isn't that ꧂honorable enough? Oh, and by the way, the stuff about The Sun's "anti-game agenda" is a joke -we don't claim to have insider insight into the paper's agenda for the same reason wedon't claim that bunny rabbits cause brain tumors.
👍Anyway,the facepalm is over,so we cannow go back to forgetting that The Sun exists.
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Nov 15, 2010
