[Dragon]

Arsenic causes cancer? I don't think so. It actually significantly decreases risk of dying of cancer, so to speak.

[Nuke]

ive done lots of rather unsafe things while playing with radiation, electricity, chemicals, drugs (legal and otherwise), members of the opposite sex, etc. frankly, im supprised im not dead yet. getting cancer would be awesome! then i can exploit alaska's medicinal marijuana laws.

[Luis Dias]

Oh come on it's ****ing peer reviewed science (tm)! It can't possibly be wrong!

[karajorma]

The science wasn't wrong.

It was what the newspapers turned it into that was utter bull****. The paper said that developing an unhealthy habit such as sitting in front of a TV or computer screen for 6-7 hours a day instead of exercising can lead to future problems such as heart disease and cancer. This is nothing that we didn't already know.

To be honest when it comes to the science, the only surprising thing is that we're still paying people to tell us this. But then again I suppose since we don't listen when they do tell us, the data they have to work with never changes.

[Dragon]

Let's face it, which one of us isn't wasting a majority of your life sitting in a chair and staring into an LCD screen? Internet is too much fun to give up, and you can't really use it while exercising. I'd say that considering everything, it might be easier to cure cancer than to get people to change their lifestyle to something more healthy.

[deathfun]

Let's face it, which one of us isn't wasting a majority of your life sitting in a chair and staring into an LCD screen? Internet is too much fun to give up, and you can't really use it while exercising. I'd say that considering everything, it might be easier to cure cancer than to get people to change their lifestyle to something more healthy.

I do NOT waste time in front of my LCD screen! I am thoroughly researching a selection of over seventy games! How dare you say I am wasting my life!

[666maslo666]

Maybe with mature motion control and VR headsets such as Oculus Rift this sedentary style of playing games will change.

[Al-Rik]

Maybe with mature motion control and VR headsets such as Oculus Rift this sedentary style of playing games will change.

And think about other applications than games... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

[Apollo]

Let's face it, which one of us isn't wasting a majority of your life sitting in a chair and staring into an LCD screen? Internet is too much fun to give up, and you can't really use it while exercising. I'd say that considering everything, it might be easier to cure cancer than to get people to change their lifestyle to something more healthy.

Well, I lift weights and play soccer. And I spend every other ounce of free time on the computer.

[Mika]

Hah!

Not yet any mention of the hours spent sitting in front of the computer while at work! That I would consider the greatest health risk.

Lemme see: working with computer causes lower back pains, upper back pains or stiff upper back, stiff back of the neck, problems with wrists and forearms (actually, this is very much work related, I haven't heard of a gamer who would get this), weakens the blood circulation to legs, delayed sleep schedule due to dis-proportionally bright monitor compared to the environment, tired eyes and all other sorts of eye trouble. And that's just for the starters.

I mean, why isn't this stuff already outlawed?

[Dragon]

Well, you're right. Maybe it should be. I'd answer in detail, but I've got a few quests to finish in TES: Morrowind.

[EvidenceOfFault]

The fact that CRT monitors are basically X-ray tubes has already been said, but I'd like to ask if the causality isn't the other way round in this case:
What do you do when you've got cancer and have to lie in a hospital all day? You play video games (I imagine, never been in that situation myself). There's your correlation.

[Nuke]

cancer causes video games too.

[BloodEagle]

Cancer causes cell phones, as well.

[SpardaSon21]

XKCD incoming!

[Nuke]

that is the second time in this thread that comic was referenced directly.

im pretty sure everyones seen it at some point.

[yuezhi]

those newspaper companies hack phones for a living. HA!

[Flipside]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPEzM2oV-PY