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Basically. Too much bad media can be hazardous to your child's health. What we wanted to do was not just take a look at one connection between media and health, say, childhood obesity or sexual behavior. We wanted to conduct a meta-study, a comprehensive look at all different aspects of the way media affects children. And the bottom line is that it can have a significant impact in the areas we looked at: childhood obesity, tobacco use, sexual behavior, drug use, alcohol use, low academic achievement and ADHD. [Lead researcher] Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and his team looked...
...stay away from that. Now, with our report, there are two important words to distinguish between: correlation and causation. This report doesn't say, nor would Common Sense ever suggest, that media is the cause of all society's ills, or the sole cause of childhood obesity or risky sexual behavior or smoking or alcohol use among teens. But it is a significant contributing factor. That's different from saying it's the sole cause. And a very important thing to say up front is that we're not anti-media. I'm a first-amendment law professor at Stanford...
...Those of you who have done work with male violence know the nature versus nurture argument comes up all the time. But it’s always brought up to end debate,” said Gordon W. Braxton, a prevention specialist in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. “Today we want to use it as a conversation starter. To ask if this is the case, what can we then do?” The panel was equally divided along this nature-nurture line. Both biology professor David A. Haig and anthropology professor Richard...
...international community’s multilateral approach has slowed the fight against the AIDS epidemic, said Stephen H. Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization, last night. In addition, he said, the failure to address sexual violence against women adequately has hastened the spread of HIV. The talk was hosted by the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and the Anthropology 1825 Speaker Series in connection with World AIDS Day. “I’ve always believed in multilateralism,” said Lewis, who is also a former United Nations special envoy...
...first blush, no one should be surprised to find the Catholic Church hierarchy butting heads with gay rights activists. But this particular French-sponsored proposal, which has the backing of all 27 European Union countries, calls for an end to the practice of criminalizing and punishing people for their sexual orientation. Most dramatically, in some countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can be punished by death...