"While practice at any task should lead to some form of improvement for that specific task, it is not clear that this improvement reflects anything other than a basic learned process for that specific task."

There was a story reported on Spong some time last year that kids in a school in Scotland who use Dr Kawashima's Brain Training on DS got significantly improved results across the curriculum, not just in the specific tasks of the software.

Plus, if shampoo adverts can say that your dead hair can look and feel "healthy", what's wrong with saying that using your brain can make it feel young?

And the point is, whatever people think it's improving or why, it does actually improve your brain, in some way or another.

Doing something improves your ability at it - if it made you worse, then maybe there would be a valid reason to criticise it.

I put it to you that this so styled, self called "Dr Jason Braithwaite" is a cock monkey, and that "Sense about Science" are a set of boring self-important attention seeking bedroom-dwellers who have few friends, and no girlfriends between them.

Patrick Stewart has captained a starship, FFS. What has this cocksucking pseudoscientist ever done. Nicole Kidman is incredibly beautiful, "Dr" Braithwaite appears to be palllid and flabby.



I know who I trust.

String theory isn't provable science, but I don't see SPOnG sniping at Edward Witten.

And while we're on with it.


I liked Sky Captain and thought it was very watchable.