Television Kills, Says German Professor
Television is responsible for the deaths of 20,000 Germans a year, according to a professor of psychiatry.
Professor Manfred Spitzer, a neuroscientist at the University of Ulm, says he has found a direct correlation between watching excessive amounts of television and death caused by obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and diabetes...
...In a book published yesterday, Beware of the TV Screen, Prof Spitzer also quantifies the damage television inflicts on the mind. "Children who watch TV have narrow horizons," he said.
He told The Telegraph: "It reduces the plasticity of their brains which remain unstimulated and fail to develop properly...
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- Étienne de la Boétie2
- Etienne de la Boetie2 is the nom de guerre of a voluntaryist/anarchist author, father, technology entrepreneur, cyclist, runner, hot yogi, racquetballer, scuba-diver, multi-disciplinarian truther, armchair economist, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and neo-abolitionist who is experimenting with large-scale cult deprogramming. Mr. Boetie2 distills 20+ years of research into short, easily-digestible treatises on individual subjects and optimizes them for the 70% of society who are visual learners. Boetie includes references and links to more comprehensive research and the “authentic voices” of the developing alternative media to counter organized crime’s “propaganda matrix” of six companies running hundreds of subsidiaries to offer the illusion of choice. Mr. Boetie2 is exposing the hidden curriculum of organized crime’s mandatory government schools and scouting programs: The hidden religion of Statism, obedience, fealty, “order-following” and tax slavery.
