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November 4, 2011 03:04 am PDT

Prof who keeps announcing links between the Internet, childhood dementia and autism should publish theories in a scientific journal

Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of pharmacology at Oxford, made headlines this week by claiming that video games gave children dementia. She later partially retracted the statement, but it's the latest in a series of unsubstantiated claims about the effect of the Internet on children, including a claim linking autism to computers. She has compared her [...]


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