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‘Phones Cause Teens to Grow Horns’ Is a Dumb Tech Moral Panic
- mc32 7y agoIt’s not a panic. But vice, and everyone talking about it and making something out of nothing, are manufacturing a ‘moral panic’ Start calling it by their right name “bone spurs” (or technically enthesophytes). But I guess putting that in their title wouldn’t create the ‘panic’. I mean, media are outraged by the, well, it’s not even, the ‘outrage’ they manufacture.
- danso 7y agoWhy would Vice, in critiquing the media, refer to “bone spurs”, when the selling point of the bogus story is that kids are growing “horns”?
- happytoexplain 7y agoThe title seems reasonable. It's saying that teens are not growing horns. I can't find the angle where it looks like this article is intending to create the moral panic it's ostensibly criticising. It seems like you are trying to apply a broad disgust for media to a specific example where there isn't much to really be disgusted by.
- miohtama 7y agoTeens do not use phones to call, so any radiation based damage should be in their fingers instead.
- cjensen 7y agoRadiation not the issue, and is not mentioned in the study or article. The issue, if it exists, is theorized by some to be related to posture.
- darkpuma 7y agoRadiation damage? My Facebook feed told me this is a spiritual affliction relating to the mark of the beast!
- Chazprime 7y agoOnly if the bone spur spells out “666” :)
- Reedx 7y agoI don't either, I prefer all other options to calls. I'm wondering how much longer they'll still be called "smartphones" and what term will replace it.
- ALittleLight 7y agoI like the term "mobile". It can be a mobile phone or a mobile computer or both.
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- Mountain_Skies 7y agoSuch a pity this isn't a bigger thing. I was hoping that this was the start of humans growing spikes on the back of our necks to protect us from predators when we're vulnerable while looking down at our phones.
- droithomme 7y ago> Dumb Moral Panic You nailed it. But... it's still damn funny. There's a place in society for Weekly World News sorts of stories. Alas it's come to be the major news outlets. But still.
- senectus1 7y agoits not funny. Humans should not be that stupid in this day and age... I mean... look at the show "Good Omens... Over 20,000 people have petitioned Netflix to cancel "Good Omens." "christians"... asking netflix to cancel a show produced and exclusively shown on amazon prime....
- perl4ever 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_occipital_protuberance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_occipital_protuberanc...