Price of Twitter ‘disease and early death’
The revenge of the geeks will be short-lived if their social networks kill them. Just ask the BBC, who invited academic Aric Sigman onto the Today program to explain why digital chatter is no alternative to physical interaction…
Newsnight, meanwhile, lined up Bad Science’s Ben Goldacre to face off with Sigman in front of the cameras - cue much confused head scratching but no real debate from the mild-mannered quack-hunter, who ended up reluctantly agreeing that if twitter wont actually kill you, sitting on your arse all day very probably will…
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