Speculation, hypothesis and ideas. But where's the evidence?
You will be familiar with the work of Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield. The Oxford University professor is head of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, where she has charged herself with promoting the public's understanding of science, of what it means for there to be evidence for a given proposition. This is important work.You will also be aware of her more prominent activity on the terrifying risks of computers, exemplified in the Daily Mail headline "Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist", "Computers could be fuelling obesity crisis, says Baroness Susan Greenfield" in the Telegraph, and so on.These stories arise from a string of lectures, public meetings, pronouncements and articles in the popular press, generated by Greenfield over the past few years. They are never set out as a clear hypothesis with the accompanying evidence and a clear suggestion of what research programmes might be...
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