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Is YouTube a Gateway Drug to Twitter? Fixin' to Find Out

For months — has it only been months? — UK neuroscientist and baronnes Susan Greenfield has been blasting Twitter and other social media for destroying the minds of the young. Today over at the invaluable Mind Hacks, the inestimable Vaughan Bell, who has tangled many times with Greenfield’s Twitter attacks, brings us the latest development. […]

For months -- has it only been months? -- UK neuroscientist and baronnes Susan Greenfield has been blasting Twitter and other social media for destroying the minds of the young. Today over at the invaluable Mind Hacks, the inestimable Vaughan Bell, who has tangled many times with Greenfield's Twitter attacks, brings us the latest development. He does so in so pithy a fashion I had to just lift the whole thing. I pray he will forgive me:

Susan Greenfield, the neuroscientist who seems to have given up on science but constantly appears in the media telling people that ‘the internet can damage your brain,’ now has a website and a YouTube channel.

A sense of irony, however, seems still to be on pre-order from Amazon.

from At least it’s not Twitter « Mind Hacks.