No, Phones Aren't Giving Kids Horns, Seriously 

Yo!

that's funny I thought you were going to talk about the other headline about "cell phones cause bone spurs" were they show an x-ray of a person with a bone spur on the side of their chest and assume its to support the dominant phone hand not a just a random mutation in that one person.

Hi! Just a suggestion: could you do an episode on the health benefits of quinoa? It is called a superfood so often that i actually wonder whether it is actually worth its price (which is considerably higher than, say, rice)

Hey! Just to say, as someone with partial red-green colour deficiency, the graph of EOP Prevalence against Age Group at 2:44 makes the two lines kinda hard to distinguish.

Thank you for the Video.

Boomers.

Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha What news outlet didn't cover this?

People who don’t bother to read.

Haven’t you heard? Millennials are still kids and don’t age. No, seriously the conflation annoys me. I’ve been hearing that age group (my age group I’m in my late 20s) been called ‘kids’ since I was 15. This is part of the reason why Millennials don’t like the word Millennial. So yes, Boomers are the ones that are bored enough.

Children till 25 according to Obama.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicion by being put into that polluted vehicle." - Thomas Jefferson

People need to believe in something, and these days people will believe anything Quintin Beck 2024/2019

you listen to death grips bro?

Remember: The media romanticize Columbine for months after it happened which many believe is linked to the rise of mass shootings. It's not just this decade.

He said this at 3:36

Just Some Guy without a Mustache when I was young a slang term for the telephone was… _the horn._

People will laugh more at this if they start call it “Brain/Skull Spurs”

U r literally everywhere

Rebecca Watson pointed out that the same posture is used for reading books.

True story

Grandparents:"Or Video Games"

@@supakusuta Great Grandparents: "It's that damn television!" Great Great Grandparents: "Radios are bad."

Pre-historic ancestors: "it's the damn fire!"

Thank goodness... I will just bind my infants head with metal hoops to form a conehead like Gawd intended!

Umm, no. People look down, like with their heads and that in itself is causing neck and back problems. Desktop computers, straight forward, laptops; somewhere in between. But alas, not a horn in sight 😉

Not really? I really question how you read books and use computers if you end up with the same hunched over posture people use when on phones. Especially given that, unlike books and computers, people often use phones whilst standing up.

Plot twist! It's actually horns that cause cell phone use. The data supports this conclusion!

@@iambluepelt3904 let's see your evidence that introverts spend more time at home on their phones

I am Bluepelt Being introverted has nothing to do with how much time somebody spends at home, that's an old misinformed stereotype, it just means you have less need for social interaction. You could be minding your own business at the library, coffee shop, or anywhere else you can think of.

Also 2019: are you sure about that?

To be fair we do have flying cars.. Just not commonly and not exactly in the way that people thought they'd be. They're more airplane than Jetsons. xD

@@itonieshi there's like what? 2 or 3 and they are only allowed to be flown by pilots. It is baiscly a personal for you to fly. And + your points

@@khaledplayz4276 So planes are actually flying buses?

@@Lee-wj6bu but are 100x as expensive

as someone who has IQ lower than 34, I found this "article" absolutely absurd. I can't believe that someone actually believes it.

Nice occupation drop! Everyone's proud of you!

NoFapKing I know you’re being sarcastic, but thank you. The only reason I put it in is because it’s a slightly different peer review process. As a chemical engineer, I don’t have control groups or as many variables as someone who works with humans/animals. I was trying to be as transparent as possible, as what’s required in a chemical engineering paper isn’t the same as in a human/animal study

@@TheTexas1994 Awesome, thank you for your input! Despite NoFap's jerkass remark, your occupation and experience are well worth mentioning as it's related credibility.

@@NoFapKing Your username already speaks for you.

Jessie Smith , I questioned the demonic thing when you were a teenager. I fully expected to see you spewing green pea soup and your head to start spinning! Now we can just blame it on your demon bump!! 😂🤪😘

Christian Vidal She is

sorry to break it to you

Same

Because it isn't new, at all. The "study" is so badly done they might as well have said "we see more piebald pigeons in modern cities than old brick suburbs, so pigeons like the color of new gray cement over old red brick." 1:28 Archaeologists have been noticing these spurs *throught human history* and haven't found any connection to habitual activities. The spurs are somewhat common and normal. 2:08 paper vaguely says "some people had enlarge EOPs," they don't give their actual numbers. Why did they exclude their hardest piece of evidence? 2:24 The paper's own graph conflicts with the written findings. 3:15 Peer-reviewers have pointed out the above glaring omissions, oversights, conflicts of data, etc. 3:46 The paper's researchers *only looked at X-rays, they literally didn't ask about phone use, reading habits, etc at all.* They only mentioned someone else's research that "men tend to use cell phones more," + "the X-Rays we looked at showed more males than females had bone spurs (even though their very own graph said young women had more)," = suggested "maybe cell phones cause larger spurs."

Because we have too many religious nuts who don't know the first thing about their own religion and don't realize that Dante's Inferno isn't actually a book of the Bible. And some of those nuts make their way into politics.

@@altrag Yadda yadda that's boring. I want to have sexy succubi women

@@altrag Wow, you seem to understand the difference between religious people and religious idiots! Such a rare attribute!

@Asdqnbkr Go to checkout gfuel.com and type in coupon code: "Succubi" for 50% off

@@lazergurka-smerlin6561 code PewDiePie

Banana But what makes you a banana ?

Not sure if you were just born yesterday or not but you do realize people believe the world is flat right?

@@MindlessTube 🤣🤣🤣

Know what makes me sad?? My spoon is too big :(

You make me sad!!!

Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha Yeah, WaPo is one Bigfoot story away from becoming The National Inquirer.

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha Except (according to Hank,) the original story was published in a proper peer review journal that BBC and WaPo just picked up on. They may have added the word "horns" but the whole thing went to stupid well before the BBC got involved. (Not that that's always the case, but it was this time.)

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha Srsly dude, this isn't a political topic.. you don't have to break into the idiotic "fake news!" style whining just because its on WaPo.

@@altrag Even without politics, this was fake news reporting from a paper known for lying regularly to get headlines that bring clicks. The WaPo doesnt have journalistic integrity anymore, which is patently obvious if you read the recent story they posted about RU-vid supporting the far right, which both lied about what it was about in the title, put non extreme RU-vidrs in with far right ones in the headline's picture, and the story was about how someone who searched out far right videos was turned left wing by youtube

*sad knee slap*

@@safir2241 sad knee slap hour

Damn, I wanted some sick horns. Imagine how great of a conversation starter they must be.

Lies. The earth is a tetrahedron.

@@supermoris194 It doesn't really matter that much as I can't count past one anyway.

i minabrons what’s one?

@@supermoris194 Infinity

The Earth is a dinosaur

And MS Paint Adventures.

Not to mention the so-called "pop" music

This is what happens when you play a tiefling

don't forget flat earthers

2011: Spongebob Squarepants makes kids stupid

2020: Masks can suffocate you.

BladE BladE They were a thing before the 21st century.

That's exactly what I thought XD

unfortunately we still habe to make our own

Good news for literally everyone else.

Isn't everything bad news for the homestuck fandom?

@@friedchickenUSA One day we will grow them, but that day is not today.

Sounds like a good idea honestly. theyre a bunch of nerds, so them doing nerd stuff is perfect.

Hank was actually in a RP session with a bunch of other people for Ashes of Valkana (which is a RP system). The session was called Titansgrave. It was shown on Geek and Sundry. Google it if you're interested. It was a lot of fun!

Kram1032 Sounds fun - thanks!

I'd almost rather they play Starfinder or some other sci-fantasy thing. It'd be more thematic haha

@@starwall8755 Ashes of Valkana definitely qualifies for sci-fantasy

You really seem to underestimate the amount of everyday phlebotinum that furries like to pretend could potentially turn them into their cartoon pornstar alter-egos--everything from dog-nose selfie filters, to the overuse of bad animal-based puns. It lies somewhere between an ernestly indulged fantasy, and a running self-deprecatory absurdist joke.

Hammer Addiction4u I would most definitely.

Me, I am some crazy people

*I can say I got utterly disappointed when I googled about and found out it wasn't true.*

I would love horns

I wouldn't mind. Close enough to animal ears right?

Literally RT America

@Yevhenii Diomidov you got metric and imperial mixed up

When I saw the news, and read a bit on it I was immediately disappointed that it was on the back of the head, not forward. So I hoped it was not real, because why the back of the head.

nah, it was probably people that wanted to have horns.

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha That doesn't justify RT's fake news in anyway their audience is composed of conspiracy nuts and they're OK with the killingsof Ukrainians

What on earth compels people to even make such bogus claims in the first place? I can't fathom the mindset it requires to deliberately do something so innately detrimental to humanity.

For anyone wondering: See "Peer Review and Golden Chopsticks"

TAmari Well, scientists are forced to write articles in a regular basis as a part of their job, so that’s part of the problem. The other part is human egoism.

That's why peer review is only half the story. There have been frauds who've written legitimate-sounding papers since the advent of modern scientific procedures. The other half of the story is experimental repeatability. A good writer can fake data. They can't fake reality. . Peer review's purpose is to weed out the most obvious fakes. It is _not_ sufficient to claim that the science is good. The only thing that can completely show the science is good is the ability to reproduce the experiment.. and even that isn't 100% sufficient as its always possible we're overlooking some tiny aspect. . Take for example, Newton's gravitation -- works perfectly well in 99% of every case ever tested, and its still used for all but the most sensitive of tasks.. but there's that tiny adjustment in the orbit of Mercury that threw the whole damned ball over the Einstein. And we already know general relativity and quantum mechanics aren't compatible so its likely even Einstein isn't 100% correct. Its only going to take one well-thought-out experiment (or more likely, one lucky observation of some patch of sky) to find that gap and set us scrambling to replace GR with an even more fundamental theory (or maybe QM.. or both.. but my money's on GR being less correct simply due to QED in particular being so ridiculously well tested while GR has only really been "tested" by watching the sky and hoping we luck into something interesting -- we've definitely done better than the orbit of Mercury by now but still not even in the ballpark of QED's experimental accuracy bounds.)

Yes, they're caused by technology. Specifically, a website. It's called MSPA, maybe you've heard of it?

Sexy succubi

I wonder how many people will get this given the baren state of HS

I’m one of them

It's because there's no end to stupid. Every time you think "that's so dumb, nobody could possibly believe that" there's always someone out there going "challenge accepted". We've managed to raise ever growing numbers of people who will believe anything and everything, and never once look at it critically. And we've given them the internet to post to the world. Evolution seems to be going backwards.

A lot of dumb people out there They should be purged

Welcome to 2019, with the resurgence of Flat Earthers...

And what exactly do you mean. the average person does not understand science and biology so they simply take headlines from people that claim they are and assume they know what they are talking about. You do realize that no one really knows how anything works in this world do you really think you can build a TV from scratch or even that of a pencil.

@@MindlessTube granted I definitely couldn't build a TV. Still I saw this article on the Washington Post and immediately thought "why would this publish this clearly inaccurate article". I forget how gullible the average person is no I suppose.

Give them some credit like eliminating a populus city with 1 bomb twice

@@Pseud0nymTXT Don't you mean 2 populous cities?

LHCreeper Well, yeah, they did, but, y’know, they also used 2 different extinction balls

@@kevintrang3007 *a communication error has occurred* ok so "a populus city with 1 bomb" = "make city go BOOM" "make city go boom twice" = bomb city, bomb city altough the statement was worded poorly so

Eh, these authors be Gen X (who are parents of Gen Z kids, who are the first ones to *really* grow up with heavy use of cell phones and tablets) or Millenial, we're all old enough to have done a sketchy research study and gotten it published through dumb luck. There's a cadre in every group who think modern technology is evil, we should all be on a paleo diet, excersizing outside cures all ailments, etc. There's loonies everywhere, and some of them manage to become highly educated and otherwise qualified. See the precious few anti-vax or anti-climate-change scientists out there that those groups cling to religiously.

More people go to BooB than Book 😰😮. Sad.

what about ..reading a book..on your phone..eh? eeeh? lol

Oh cool, no one is getting angry at Justin Y for simply existing in the comment section. That's great.

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha wat

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha no one said this was published by christian fundamentalist pages, the commenter above you said they can already imagine fundamentalists using this poor journalism in their echo chambers, and then you for some reason went on a tirade against politically left wing people and genders?

Same omgosh

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha Fundamentalist Christians are a religious group not a political one. Nice try though.

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha I'm not having a stroke right? Should I be able to understand any part of this?

Really more like well, no, but actually, _NO._

It's not from phone use that's for sure.

@@Kibaoftheleaves i've had for as long as i remember, didn't have a phone as a kid

CrazyAF people thinking that Siri and Google home are sentient and are treated as slaves?

@@syd6654 Something tells me this is already a thing.

Who can possibly say? I mean, Nessie already has skinwalkers vaccinating people in their sleep to make them think spherical Earth is possible in an effort to distract them from the horns they're growing...

Damb phone-horners

Planet X/Niburu, even though invisible and undetected?

According to anthropologists these growths have been around for hundreds of years.

@@silverrane173 Yea, so not that rare, or caused by phones for sure ;p Just as i was thinking (but i did check a few people and nobody else seems to have that so it made me wonder)

Because Facebook posts are the best and most reliable source of knowledge.

literally every facebook moms ever

Same

This is natural i think. So we need not to worry

like, seriously, all these folks with hunched backs would clearly have shark fins by that logic

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha Something very similar, yes. This reminds me of another paper that was published for that reason-- but for the life of me, can't remember what it said.

I agree. Too many people commenting things like "OMG it's so stupid people will believe anything". The point should be that if something seems incredible, read more into it and see if it's well documented or not. The point shouldn't be that if something seems incredible that you should reject it because smart people don't believe in incredible things. Like. We need more videos that go through a step by step process of what to do when you encounter controversial news. People just don't seem to know and it's not exactly as simple as "just Google it". You need to know what to enter in Google, how to track back the original source of the story, how to evaluate the credibility of the source.

lots of people do. They're not that uncommon.

There's always body modification. Get a girl and convince her to get transdermal horn implants, get her ears pointed, get her tongue forked, and get her lingual frenulum removed so she can stick her tongue out further. And maybe even get cybernetic wings and a tail grafted onto her body. Bam. Succubus. And without the risk of your soul being eaten or having to sign a pact with Satan condemning your soul to an eternity in Hell :p. (That last part is a joke. I don't actually believe in Hell)

dplocksmith91 but have you actually seen people who get these sort of body modifications? They look horrific, that's not cute.

Also no 02

@@dinospack6797 (X﹏X)↷

Ikr those click-bat news articles are probably partial responsible for this. Fortunately SciShow is all about that good science.

Read Homestuck and sell your soul to its creator.

I don't know if that was intended, but it lead me to the greatest pun I've ever written: Spurious spurs spur spurn.

@@Sam_on_RU-vid That is a great Dad-joke style pun!

That is what a person with horns would say to hide the fact that they have horns!

No it's not. The only person that tried to convince you of that was Donald Trump, who tried with every ounce of energy he could to discredit CNN and the New York Times for the true things they were reporting about him.

@@abesapien9930 Except I'm not Republican, nor have I ever been a Trump supporter. What I am, is someone who has actually worked within the news industry. If CNN is so trustworthy, how come they don't report on China's genocide, their labor camps, and countless other evils? I'm sure it has nothing to do with all of the business ties they have with China that makes them money. Every single major news media spits out lies and twists the truth. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum they are on, they are not trustworthy. Support independent news sources.

I really hope they were making fun of it.

Females are more into social media and cell phone games then most men from what I hear. But who knows it's impossible to believe anything these days