{"id":60,"date":"2019-06-29T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:23:55","slug":"debate-have-smartphones-destroyed-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-1\/1-3\/debate-have-smartphones-destroyed-a-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; Debate: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get some sense of how scientific understanding develops, each part of the course will present a debate between different investigators on some topic of current interest. To start things out here is a fairly recent article claiming that the widespread use of smartphones by adolescents is already having a range of negative effects, as well as another article which claims that the first author has greatly overstated her case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2017\/09\/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation\/534198\/\">Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/once-more-feeling\/201708\/no-smartphones-are-not-destroying-generation\">No, Smartphones are Not Destroying a Generation<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get some sense of how scientific understanding develops, each part of the course will present a debate between different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":383,"menu_order":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/4610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}