No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635392-800-no-need-to-stop-the-brain-rot-modern-kids-arent-less-intelligent/
Neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett tackles a common, but unfair, claim about modern young people. For New Scientist magazine
#Brains #BrainRot #Youth #GenZ
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)
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