{"id":6262,"date":"2016-07-18T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:46:05","slug":"worth-sharing-new-american-academy-of-pediatrics-policy-statement-on-virtual-violence-is-basically-nuts-why-parents-and-policy-makers-can-ignore-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/07\/18\/worth-sharing-new-american-academy-of-pediatrics-policy-statement-on-virtual-violence-is-basically-nuts-why-parents-and-policy-makers-can-ignore-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: New American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on \u201cVirtual Violence\u201d is, Basically, Nuts: Why Parents and Policy Makers Can Ignore It"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has a long history of releasing policy statements on media which are both wildly alarmist and grossly inaccurate. These include their controversial claims about \u201cFacebook Depression\u201d in 2011, their problematic and unrealistic recommendations on screen time, and past biased statements regarding media violence, which once infamously inflated the number of studies by a factor of about ten (mistakenly claiming 3500 studies existed when, in fact, there were a couple hundred). \u00a0In July, 2016, the AAP have added to their unscientific litany a new policy statement that reads as strangely defensive and frustrated (indeed, ironically enough, even \u201caggressive\u201d) but distorts the research evidence as more consistent and worrisome than it currently is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/new-american-academy-of-pediatrics-policy-statement_us_5787d706e4b0cbf01e9f5574\">New American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on \u201cVirtual Violence\u201d is, Basically, Nuts: Why Parents and Policy Makers Can Ignore It<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6262'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6262);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6262);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6262);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has a long history of releasing policy statements on media which are both wildly alarmist and grossly inaccurate. These include their controversial claims about \u201cFacebook Depression\u201d in 2011, their problematic and unrealistic recommendations on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/07\/18\/worth-sharing-new-american-academy-of-pediatrics-policy-statement-on-virtual-violence-is-basically-nuts-why-parents-and-policy-makers-can-ignore-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,371,415],"tags":[388,342,212,80,25],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-games","category-research","category-violence","tag-academia","tag-games-gaming","tag-research","tag-science","tag-trouble-in-river-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1D0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5706,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/20\/worth-sharing-the-post-mortem-on-the-apas-dead-on-arrival-policy-statement-on-video-games-christopher-j-ferguson\/","url_meta":{"origin":6262,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: The Post-Mortem on the APA&#8217;s Dead-On-Arrival Policy Statement On Video Games\u00a0|\u00a0Christopher J. 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