Whenever I see unproven fear-based reports like this one, I’m reminded of all the fear-inducing reports in my childhood. Comic books were warping our fragile little minds, so when I was six, my mother threw away a huge collection of Bugs Bunny comic books that I’d been given by our neighbors before I could read more than a handful of them (they were Bugs Bunny, fer cryin’ out loud!). Thankfully she was wise enough to ignore the later panics about TV, Dungeons & Dragons, Atari video games, and who knows what else.

So far as I know, all of those turned out to be bogus, with no more reality to them than the bogeyman. And some of them turned out to actually be backwards — video games have now been shown to improve a child’s mind in many ways. I suspect this one will eventually prove to be in the same category, though it will likely be twenty more years before anyone gets around to it.