[starbug]

Yip you heard it, on the front page of several papers here in the UK, well in Scotland anyway. Main news of the day is that Video Games and TV give you cancer! I didn t have time to read the article but for gods sake, What has the our crappy goverment and media got against games? Also its just another thing in a long line of activities that now give you cancer! Why don't they just say being alive gives you cancer and be done with it. I really cant wait to look at the evidence they have for this, i have played games for 20 years and i am in perfect health, also never had any violent urges after playing doom etc lol.

[deathfun]

Kidding me? I get all the violent urges to kill after doing some crazy melee in Killzone or Farcry

[headdie]

they been spewing the TVs irradiate your body line since the late 80s iirc, that where radiation screens for the old CRT monitors came from.

[An4ximandros]

Man, they better start telling people how dangerous Bananas, the couch, the floor, the walls, the wind, the sun, the trees, the animals, and every component of the universe is, since they are almost all partly made of radioactive isotopes!

Wait... Humans are radioactive too! OH MAN, OH GOD, OH MAN, OH GOD, OH GOD, OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD!

[The E]

Okay, this may blow your mind.

Did you know that long life causes death?

[Dragon]

What has the our crappy goverment and media got against games?

I don't know about government (maybe they suck at gaming ), but for media, I'm not surprised. You read it in a paper, right? Now, consider that when people watch TV or play games, they have less time to read newspapers. Old media always fought against new media, my guess is that out of fear of being phased out by them.

[redsniper]

Why don't they just say being alive gives you cancer and be done with it.

That's... actually kind of true I think.

[newman]

I think he's actually kind of aware of that. That's the whole point

[Mikes]

Guess they talking about this? http://www.computerandvideogames.com/385389/mirror-front-page-attacks-games-for-giving-kids-cancer/

So basically the reasoning is... sitting on your ass for unhealthy amounts of time, increases your cancer risk... duh.

I.e.: With their reasoning reading books and newspapers for prolonged amounts of time  has the same cancer risk as watching TV or playing games.

Poor print media... lol.

[Nuke]

they been spewing the TVs irradiate your body line since the late 80s iirc, that where radiation screens for the old CRT monitors came from.

with a cathode ray tube you essentially are staring straight into an electron beam. thats why the things are so ****ing heavy, because the glass is leaded. i very much doubt that cold cathode florescent backlight in most lcds is very dangerous (and those are being phased out for led backlights).

i think this is just another case of news failing science. correlation is not causation, etc.

scientist: people who play video games have a higher incidence of cancer than those who do not.
reporter: video games cause cancer!

i would actually more or less blame the lifestyle of gamers (little exercise, horrible junk food diet), rather than the games themselves.

[Mikes]

http://xkcd.com/925/

[Nuke]

why did i know that somone would post that. cellphones are useless crap and i wouldnt be caught dead using one (i might hack a cb radio to send encrypted data streams but dont tell the fcc im doing that).

[Al-Rik]

What doesn't give you cancer ?

The best way to avoid cancer is to die from something else while your  are young
 

[Klaustrophobia]

a friend posted a picture of facebook of a warning sticker that said something like "this product is known to the state of california to cause cancer."


it was a hatchet.

[Sarafan]

I play games, watch tv and my sign is cancer so this is nothing new to me.

[MP-Ryan]

a friend posted a picture of facebook of a warning sticker that said something like "this product is known to the state of california to cause cancer."

it was a hatchet.

Those signs are on everything in California.  It's quite hilarious to walk around as a visitor.  My wife and I once found a wrought-iron fence near Disneyland that causes cancer.

[SpardaSon21]

Yeah, everyone around here just ignores them.

[Mikes]

They (have to) put all kinds of stickers on cigarettes over here.

The "Smoking causes impotence" sticker can be really awkward for a guy on a date.

I'd imagine that one is much more effective than "Smoking harms others", "Smoking causes death" or the good old "Smoking causes cancer".

[Al-Rik]

a friend posted a picture of facebook of a warning sticker that said something like "this product is known to the state of california to cause cancer."

it was a hatchet.

Those signs are on everything in California.  It's quite hilarious to walk around as a visitor.  My wife and I once found a wrought-iron fence near Disneyland that causes cancer.

Hm, probably all those products have been treated with hexavalent Chromiumsalts to increase corrosion resistance. The signs are right - if you lick or chew regularly on that fence you might get cancer

Edit: Here is the list of things that cause cancer in California (ccC)
http://www.oehha.org/prop65/prop65_list/Newlist.html

Hm, is Captain Obvious the official superhero of California ?
Alcoholic beverages, when associated with alcohol abuse - cause cancer in California...
 

[SpardaSon21]

Don't forget that every supermarket has signs on its front doors that warn us that the store sells products that may cause cancer.  We Californians have blanked those Proposition 69 warnings from our collective visual receptors since they're slapped on everything to the point of annoyance, so nobody pays attention when there really is a dangerous product that actually causes cancer.