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Hedra42 on 09 January 2017
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Mr Puggsly said:
Hedra42 said:

Bolded: lol, if they died too soon to see the results of smoking, there wouldn't have been the explosion of lung cancer cases to make the link with.

The effects of smoking are pretty obvious to us today only because we've been made aware of the scientific proof. It wasn't obvious to people living in the early 20th century because longer term effects are more difficult to see. In fact they were being told that smoking was okay. Smokers of Camel cigarettes were advised that a cigarette between each course of a meal 'aided digestion'. Doctors even smoked in front of their patients.

So, just because we've seen no immediate adverse effects yet on young kids who have been playing the 3DS with the 3D slider up, doesn't mean there won't be any long term impact. Optometrists and eye doctors have warned there could be risks to the development of vision in younger children, and until there is scientific proof either way, it's common sense to acknowledge that warning. That's not BS, that's sensible caution.

Nintendo will most likely - and quite rightly - continue to warn against young children using the 3D feature unless there's scientific proof that 3D simulation does no harm to young kids' visual development.

That's fair, a lot of people were having health issues already. But with people living longer, smoking loner, the affects are more evident. And again, science of that time was a lot different than now. They do a better job at figuring out what's killing/damaging people these days.

Virtually everything has a warning now. Not because they're a real danger but to avoid getting sued. If Nintendo was genuinely concenred 3D was destroying eyes the 3DS wouldn't exist.

Science of the early 20th century was indeed different from science nowadays, but the processes of testing and experimenting to arrive at conclusions hasn't changed, and nor has the length of time it takes, in general terms. And they don't always do a better job at figuring out what's killing/damaging people these days - as the debunked and fraudulent 1998 paper claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism has shown.

@ bolded - Indeed - and if Sony were genuinely concerned about photosensitive epilepsy, perhaps the PS4 wouldn't exist, instead of letting people buy one and have it display the same bloody warning every time it boots up.

All these warnings are a sad symptom of the culture of lawsuits we live in, I agree, but they are there because there because of risks the consumers need to be aware of, and therefore shouldn't be ignored.